Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live. I'm always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

the deep in your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your

life. So I have a question for you today, not rhetorical. I really want to know the answer. And you know

one of my love languages is texting. When you text me, I know you're out there. I get a sense of

where you're at, what you're walking through in your story. So here is my question. I want a literal answer. You ready? What's the most prevailing emotion

you've been feeling these days? What's the most prevailing emotion that you've been just sort of

keeps popping up for you? Is it anger or fear, jealousy, despair, loneliness? I say be honest,

but I really don't need to ask you to do that because you are so honest and this is the no fluff zone. So I'm going to give you the number. You can text me in.

877-933-24-84. What's the most prevailing emotion that sort of keeps popping up for you lately?

No wrong answer there. 877-933-24-84. You know, our emotions always don't seem to match our circumstances. Sometimes

you feel like you're overreacting. Why is that? And what are you supposed to do with the emotions

at surface? If you stuff them, you know, that doesn't work. If you let them lead and you overreact

to them, you know, that doesn't work. So what's the healthiest way to deal with how you feel? Well, that's what we're talking about today.

Author and Pastor Dr. James Merritt joins me to talk about his really great book,

How to Deal with How You Feel, Managing the Emotions That Make Life Unmanageable.

This is such a practical book. I love to have deep people on the show, and then when they write a book that gives such practical help,

then it just puts resources in your hands. So we've got five copies to give away of this book. I'm going to give you

the title again, how to deal with how you feel, managing the emotions that make life unmanageable.

In a separate text, if you want, in on the drawing, you can text the word book to 877-933-2484.

The reason it needs to be separate is when you text the word book, it kicks back a link

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