God accepts whatever we bring to the God / person relationship — our physical and spiritual condition, personality, connection to reality, our participation in relationships, talents, inabilities, cognition, knowledge, ignorance, life journey, spiritual journey, walk about, wandering, seeking, questioning, questing, acceptance of God, rejection of God — and our emotional and mental status: hate / love,
anger / peace, sadness / happiness, hurt / health, feeling
lost and abandoned / feeling found and included, agitation / serenity, apathy / passion, confusion / clarity, fractures / wholeness — all of this, all of whoever we are and have ever been and every action committed or ever contemplated and every thought we ever explored or entertained or that flitted
through our mind — all of this, we bring to the God / person relationship and God accepts the totality of who we are and every component that comprises who we are — as a gift.
Written
through periods of grief and triumph, sadness and hope,
anger and determination, Julie discusses the hell of
losing a child, but the importance of finding the beauty in everyday.
Joy, Fear,
Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get
lost, they must journey
through unfamiliar places to get back home.
After
losing his office job after being diagnosed, the protagonist goes
through denial,
anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance as he comes to terms with his illness.
After marinating in the
anger, hurt, resentment, guilt, shame, blame and other conflicting emotions for so long, some
lose their capacity to empathize with what their children are going
through — or they just stop caring.