* Research now shows how unexpressed emotions cause physical damage to our bodies.

* David said the same thing here in this verse.

* A clinical phsychologist said:

* “Habitual repression of emotion leaves a person in a situation of chronic stress, and chronic stress creates an unnatural biochemical milieu in the body.”

* A doctor who treated terminally ill cancer patients said this:

* “Not one of the many adults interviewed for this book could answer in the affirmative when asked the following: When, as a child, you felt sad, upset or angry, was there anyone you could talk to—even when he or she was the one who had triggered your negative emotions? In a quarter century of clinical practice, including a decade of palliative work, I have never heard anyone with cancer or with any chronic illness or condition say yes to that question.”

* What do we do?

* 1) Pour ourself out to God. Confess sin, don’t bottle up emotions.

* 2) Pour ourself out to a few others. James 5:16 - this is where healing comes in.