Emotions can get the best of us.
In A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks sees a lady crying after ripping her apart for making a bad play and loudly proclaims, “There’s no crying in baseball!”
We have to face the facts, sometimes our emotions get the best of us.
There was a story this week about a pro sports team and how the players were crying in the locker room.
It was a big deal for some people, others could care less.
Sometimes our emotions get the best of us.
Now I am not much for showing emotions, it’s something I am trying to work on but fall short at.
I rarely cry.
I didn’t cry at…
The birth of my kids.
Most if not all funerals.
And well…I didn’t cry at a lot of other things.
Two times I remember crying in the last 17 years.
1. Calling the funeral home for my cousin Charles funeral.
2. Angels in the Outfield….yes, there was a part in the movie where the kids dad gives him up for adoption and walks away, I will admit to crying.
P.S. I almost cried at the end of Toy Story 3 when Andy gives the toys away.
I am not much of a crier or a guy that shows a lot of emotions.
There are reasons why in the past I kept myself from crying, that’s another story all together.
Emotions can get the best of us and sometimes that is okay.
Even Jesus cried.
Luke 19:41-42…
“As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace – but now it is hidden from your eyes.”
Jesus could have brought peace to the city.
The people wouldn’t listen and soon he would die on the cross for not only the cities sins, but everyone’s.”
Emotions are ok, it is difficult at times, but it’s okay to have emotions.
Jesus had emotions and there was nothing wrong with this.
It’s not a sin to cry.
Emotion is something I am working at showing.
Sometimes I can fall short in the area Hailee has told me she wished I had more emotion.
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.
Emotions are what they are.
Often we hide the people we are.
We try to put on a cover or a front so other people won’t see us.
Saving face is in term they call it in some literature and cultures.
Whoever showed emotion was looked as being weak.
That isn’t the case anymore.
Do people see the real you?
God knows us, the real us, he knows the person and cover we try to hide behind.
At some point this catches up to us and we crack unless we change.
At what point are you going to move to the person you can be?
Have a great day.
