"...neither emotion nor reason is supposed to be king. People do not work that way. God did not create a higher us and a lower us, a ruler and a subject. He just created us. Reason and emotion are so totally intertwined and interdependent that anyone who tries to separate them will end up with spiritual dwarfism, never attaining true maturity or emotional fullness.
"God made us emotional and rational beings. The two go hand in hand. They support, define, and clarify each other. Emotion and reason together are what make us complete and make our lives full...
"...Getting out of the box means living with emotion and reason working together, instead of having them jockey for top position. This balanced approach is the harder road. It requires that we never ignore what we are feeling - or what we are thinking. We have to search ourselves and the Bible to make each decision in our lives." - Matthew Elliott, Feel: The Power of Listening to Your Heart
What do you think about this? Should emotion and reason be used together, or is one more important than the other? If you agree that they're equally important, how does it change things to think of yourself as emotional and rational instead of just one or the other? Where do you struggle with balance, and what do you think balance looks like? I'll post my answers later tonight, but you should leave some of your own in the meantime :)
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