The depth of emotions

Ecclesiastes 11:10 New English Translation (NET Bible)

¹⁰ Banish emotional stress from your mind,
and put away pain from your body;
for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

Let it be from the depth of the heart

The depth of emotion reaches out for understanding

but like the deepest ocean it can’t be known as of yet.

An altar of devotion that we are always attending

in search of a potion to soothe and heal our nest.

The feelings that rule us and seem to guide our path

and make us oft the fool as we wander on through life.

It seems that in this it penetrates and expands wrath

as dissatisfaction besets us and so instigating strife.

How about true emotion is it not a treasure?

If guided by the Lord it is founded on compassion.

Charity in devotion that only God can measure

as we live God’s word: our call, our love, our mission.

Jan Wienen