Feelings and emotions aren’t “womanly weakness.” And they aren’t “human weakness” either. They indicate something. They have meaning. They are important. God created man in His image. Does not God also have feelings, then? Chapter one of Joseph Carroll’s book How to Worship Jesus Christ ends with this sentence: “(Mary) knew what it was to have intimate fellowship with her Lord; therefore, she received a great reward: the unspeakable honor of sharing the deep feelings of His heart.”
From now on, when I pray to God, I want to be more aware of His reactiveness—I want to treat our conversation as I would a conversation with any emotional, deep person, as if I’m talking to any friend whose feelings I care about. He will never be unreasonable or overreact, but is it out of my ability to grieve Him? Of course not. Then is it too lofty to think that I might please Him, cause Him to smile?
What I never want to do is, in effect, pray to the statue guy across the echoing marble hall. That god is somewhat disinterested, and above being hurt by insignificant humans. Our God—daddy—bears eternal holes in His body, not to mention the memory of infinite anguish.
He also cracks a hearty grin.
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