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The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God is unavailable, but you can change that!

So often we find ourselves caught between extremes. Either we feel too much or not at all. We tend to ignore our feelings or fight them off as if they were an enemy. But all emotion—whether positive or negative—can give us a glimpse of the true nature of God. We want to control our negative emotions and dark desires. God wants us to recognize them as the cry of our soul to be made right with Him....

(4) All emotions, including the darker ones, give us a glimpse of the character of God. This is the heart of our book. Far more important than the way in which emotions reveal the movement of the heart is the way in which our most difficult emotions—anger, fear, jealousy, despair, contempt, and shame—uniquely reveal something about the heart of God. Our positive emotions, of course—joy, peace, pleasure, and others—have equal potential to teach us about the nature of God. But the darker struggles
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