How to Deal with How You Feel
Managing the Emotions That Make Life Unmanageable
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- USD 14.99
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- USD 14.99
Descripción editorial
“Dr. Merritt brings the truth of God’s Word and the wisdom of experience to that part of our humanity that moves us—the emotions.”
—Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
In today’s climate of turmoil and uncertainty, threatening and incapacitating feelings run rampant. Yet the God who created your emotions has also given you everything you need to navigate them. The Bible paints relatable and resonant portraits of women and men struggling with grief, anger, guilt, and despair—and provides divine wisdom for transforming your emotional trials into spiritual triumphs.
When you study God’s Word carefully, you’ll discover it illuminates not just your faith, but also your feelings. In How to Deal with How You Feel, Dr. James Merritt will help you understand and apply the Bible’s often overlooked practical guidance for handling difficult emotions, including depression, jealousy, dissatisfaction, anxiety, rage, and loneliness.
How to Deal with How You Feel is a powerful roadmap to emotional health that will provide you with simple strategies and effective tools to process even your most chaotic emotions in a spiritually beneficial way. As you read, you’ll discover how a deep-rooted faith will empower you to experience the richness of contentment, joy, and peace that transcends understanding.
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This sensible if simplistic work by pastor Merritt (Character Still Counts), former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, offers Christian guidance on controlling one's emotions. Drawing on scripture, the author "outlines God's blueprint for how to deal with your emotions." Merritt looks to the Bible for advice on coping with such "life takers" as anxiety, anger, and loneliness. For example, he recommends readers follow the stress management strategy exemplified by Isaiah as he awaited the fall of Jerusalem: "Look up at the unequaled God, listen to the unlimited God, and linger with the unfailing God." Examining how to embody such positive emotions as joy, hope, and gratitude, he contends that "giving thanks is a big deal to God" and suggests that Christians might give thanks for their literacy, religious freedom, and the roofs over their heads. Some solutions can feel trite—such as the four-step plan for dealing with anxiety: celebrate, appreciate, pray to, and meditate on God—but the scriptural analysis offers some keen insights into how biblical figures used God's grace to master their feelings, as when Merritt discusses Jesus's teaching that "worry is an insult to God. It's a slap in his face." Christians will find some wisdom in this handy if lightweight volume.
