Choose Feelings or Feelings Choose

Did you ever wake up in the  morning…with the feeling of downcast...ick for no apparent reason?  That was me--this morning.  No reason.  Wished I would have stayed up when I awoke earlier--when I had the -ready to go- feeling.   But the need for sleep trumped that…and that leaves me back to the -ick for no reason-.  Did I have a bad dream?  Hormones?  Weird.  Here is the real trouble, how do you kick it?  (Ha-ha…kick the ick...sorry.)
I guess there are a few “health” things I could have tried, but I tend to take awhile for my brain to get into action in the morn.
 But perhaps this is a mild version of a larger issue that we all face.  Our feelings.  They can lie.  They can go crazy.  Or control.  Be a roller coaster.  The list goes on.  Let’s face it our feelings can take us a whole lot of places we don’t want to go.   And what can make it worse is when we impose them on to others.  You think something about someone cause you think that they think (feel) this certain way about you--and it has nothing to do with them.  Excepting in your mind.  I wish I could just put off these bad feelings. . . Oh, wait - I can!  Funny though cause in the moment when the “I can” occurs in my mind I want to shoo it away.
 But I should not.
Choose to put the feelings off.  Sit on the couch.  Two boys are up.  Not ready for start mode.  So I read (my reading) out loud to them.  This is good.  We relax.  Sometimes that can help the putting off of the feeling.  And it does…eventually.  Life is too important to keep the ick on.

^{Colossians 3:9-10, 12-15}

  Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator...

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness,humility, meekness, and patience,  bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.