Kaylamity

The new year has begun… but I have not.  I feel like someone has hit my “pause” button and I’m just waiting for them to hit “play” so I can get going.  I had high intentions of getting back into the gym four days a week, of reading my bible daily, and staying busy until bedtime every night to get my house in order and chores caught up, but I am failing miserably.  I have not stepped a foot in the gym since before Christmas, have only touched my bible on church days, and am lucky to get dinner on the table nightly and enough laundry done to keep us in clean clothes.  I am in need of revival. This past Sunday was the first day of Revival at our church.  It’s the first time we have attended Revival there, and the first time Jerry or the four youngest children have EVER attended a church revival.  I would really love to say that I have been revived physically, but I can say I have been revived spiritually!  This four-day spiritual uplifting is just what the doctor ordered.   Just weeks a

Emotions.   Moods.   Feelings.   They go by many names, but they are all the same thing: a reaction to a situation.   They are a reaction that, many times, we have absolutely no control over.   Sometimes we just “feel” a certain way for no reason at all.   Nothing happens, nothing doesn’t happen.   There is no rhyme or reason for feeling a certain way, yet sometimes we just do.   It makes me crazy!   (Is that another emotion?)   Not long ago our pastor’s bible study topic was whether our feelings affected our faith.   He suggested that he believes that we have total control over how we “feel” about something.   I’m not so sure I concur with that opinion.   I do believe that we choose how we physically react to a situation (like choosing not to snap and bite someone’s head off or take a swing at someone’s jaw), but can we really decide how we feel internally?   Actually, sometimes our bodies have physical reactions that we cannot control: Crying, for example.   There are times when