“There is an implicit pressure to stifle our real feelings because we are urged, by pious merchants of emotional denial, that we ought to have ‘faith’. So we end up giving an external voice to pretended emotions we do not really feel, while hiding the emotions we are struggling with deep

inside."

(Christopher Wright, The God I Don't Understand p.52)

1. Spiritually Overwhelmed

2. Emotionally Overwhelmed

3. Physically Overwhelmed

We are called to focus on God, confess to God, and turn to God when things get rough.

A spiritual problem calls for a spiritual solution

God is a Safe Place to Speak Freely