Your Emotional Desires Are Not Your Behaviors
Isaac Archuleta
Your Emotional Desires Are Not Your Behaviors
After a night of drinking and driving I would slip my key into the lock. It was always my turn to open up shop on Friday mornings. I had to be there early enough to test the blood alcohol content of all the DUI offenders.
I would show up with bloodshot eyes and embarrassment smattered all over my face. How could it be that I was a substance abusing, seminary student working to rehabilitate DUI offenders?
After work, I would dash to my own therapy sessions and talk of my own emotional needs with my counselor, questioning their validity. A good Christian, I often heard, didn’t and shouldn’t “need” anything but the Lord. It was easy to believe my emotions were damaged, since my own emotional needs always led me down the wrong path.
My own emotional cravings were the anatomy of the flesh that I should learn to live without…. (Read more in the app!)
Isaac Archuleta