{"id":1045,"date":"2012-04-24T01:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T05:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2016-10-19T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T12:08:45","slug":"chossing-the-better-cereal-and-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/04\/chossing-the-better-cereal-and-emotion.html","title":{"rendered":"Choosing the Better Emotional Cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emotions are as varied as cereals.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t buy into the sugary emotions that leave us hyper and tired, such as infatuation, greed, fear, and apathy.<\/p>\n<p>Buy into and eat the humdrum emotions that keep us going all day. Honesty, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/2011\/09\/dont-worry-so-much-about-outward-appearance.html\">realism<\/a>, forgiveness, empathy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/04\/not-hating-religion-but-love-christ-and-feel-healing.html\">forbearance<\/a>, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,\u00a0 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.&#8221;\u00a0 (Gal. 5: 22-23, NIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotions are as varied as cereals. Don\u2019t buy into the sugary emotions that leave us hyper and tired, such as infatuation, greed, fear, and apathy. Buy into and eat the humdrum emotions that keep us going all day. Honesty, realism, forgiveness, empathy\u2026 &#8220;But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[444,446,445],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life","category-smorgasbord","tag-cold-cereal","tag-emotional-decision","tag-sugar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Choosing the Better Emotional Cereal - Everyday Spirituality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2012\/04\/chossing-the-better-cereal-and-emotion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Choosing the Better Emotional Cereal - Everyday Spirituality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Emotions are as varied as cereals. 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