This morning God has opened my eyes to another area of growth I’ve needed to find. This has to do with my emotions. Every since Star Trek came along as a TV program I’ve “idolized” Spock. He was the very one who always had complete control of himself and made wise choices in the heat of major issues. I wanted to be just like him. My example growing up with dad was a man who made ugly choices from his emotional rages. I sure didn’t want to be like him.

Yesterday I wrote about surrendering my pride and humbly confessing “one to another”. In so doing, The Holy Spirit can do His cleansing and healing work in me/in each of us. As I was journaling today God was pointing out that pride and humility are in the emotions category. All of a sudden I realize I WANT to appreciate my emotions and I stopped to thank God for giving me emotions and that I finally could see them as a GIFT rather than a threat. They are a part of the “fearfully and wonderfully made” creation as Psalms 139:14 tells us.

Once again, God has personalized a lesson for me–part of His Spiritual, special education work. I leaning to love being a special education student!