Daily Devotion - Tuesday, February 24

Emotions with Morrie


I like to refer to the book Tuesdays with Morrie from time to time in these devotions. It is an engaging book which details Mitch Albom’s stories of his weekly (Tuesday) visits with a college professor who was dying. Morrie’s disease was ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes we call it Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The sixth Tuesday that Mitch and Morrie spent together they dealt with the subject of emotions. Since one of the themes we encounter in the month of February focuses on love, here are some of Morrie’s insights about a way of dealing with all of our emotions. Think about these quotes today:

• “Take any emotion,” he says, and “allow yourself to go all the way through it.”
• “By throwing yourself into your emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience your emotions fully and completely.”
• “Only when you jump in all the way can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. I can name my emotions and experience them as well.’”

We are thinking about love this month. Enjoy this emotion. Dive in and enjoy the experience of living love today.

Ben Keckler
02.24.09