Spiritual director Alice Fryling calls our feelings “the spontaneous response we give to our interpretation of an event.” Often, our immediate emotional responses are beyond our control. They’re spontaneous. But if we pay attention to them, we can begin to see how they reveal our hidden beliefs—our interpretations of the world around us.

Sources: Luke 10:25-28 (NIV)

Jonah 3:10-4:11 (NIV)

Alice Fryling, Seeking God Together: An Introduction to Group Spiritual Direction (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008).

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013).

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