The hospital is an emotional environment of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. I’ve been sitting in the ICU over 30 hours now and have experienced and witnessed an immense amount of emotion. It doesn’t take long to observe in an ICU room that God has wired humanity for emotion. While I am writing, a women is audibly crying out to Jesus. How ironic that when God can be accused of being the most absent, He is felt the most present. Where/who else does our hope lie? Mourning is mentioned 138 times in scripture and joy is mentioned 242 times. Emotions themselves are neither good or bad, but rather, how we deal with the emotions can be defining in our lives. Psalm 34:18 declares that God is close to the brokenhearted. The Psalms frequently express the emotions of David from anger to pleasure. Radical Emotions will be inevitable; The bigger question is who/where will you direct your emotion? Emotions are often Redemptive.
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