Clean Up on Aisle Katie

I don’t typically blog very much. But, I’ve been experiencing something that I’d like to think I’m not alone in. As a woman, my emotions are typically pretty high and sometimes tend to define me. Cue jokes about women, our emotions, and that time of the month. The truth is, no matter what day of the week it is, there is a great temptation to let my emotions rule my life. I can be weighed down by the way I view myself, by the way I talk about myself, by the way I do or don’t take compliments very well. Emotions are so good, but I know I can’t let them define me, or make my decisions for me. This is a daily struggle for me. How I feel often determines what I get done that day, whether or not I go outside, what I eat, and how much, if I feel like being cuddly with my husband, and so so much more.


My emotions have been kind of out of whack for a few months. I don’t find myself feeling sadness, but feelings of being unmotivated, and this affects everything I do, and every decision I make.


So, as a woman I have experience, and can identify a lot of emotions I’m having on an hourly basis. And as I have already said, these feelings can dictate my life if I let them. Often times, I give in. I let myself feel inadequate, insecure, unmotivated, unworthy, lazy, fear, and more than anything, inconsistency with my commitments.
Being a woman is a many splendid thing. It comes in a complete package of so much responsibility and so much joy. Keeping our emotions in tact isn’t easy. That’s why, not only as a woman, but a Christian woman, I know it is flat out ridiculous to let my emotions to have their way with me. I try to live in a way that it is clear to everyone that I trust God. My actions don’t always match my feelings, but I know that if I don’t trust God with my feelings, emotions, reactions, moods, thoughts, and attitude I will be a mess.


I am currently a mess. It’s tough to let God have my negativity, because on some weird level I often feel like I’m justified in my wallowing. I know I can’t live like that, believe me I’m trying to do this thing solo as hard as I can go!


I am thankful for emotions and feelings, but I can’t give them the amount of authority I have been letting them have lately. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way; it’s tough to feel so much. Thankfully, if we let him be, God is so comforting.

“My yolk is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:30