We are emotional beings. God made us that way. Although we each have different gifts that differentiate our intellectual and physical abilities, we tend to react to the world emotionally. As our creator, God uses these emotions to interact with us—He speaks to us in emotional terms. In the beatitudes, He promises comfort for our…
When we read a novel, we can usually trust the author’s exposition. If the author wrote that a character is annoyed with a situation then the reader can trust that the character is annoyed. What is thought by a character are true thoughts and we can read minds through the words of the author. What…