The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You are between meetings. The last one left a residue — tension in your shoulders, a low-grade frustration you have not named, a mood that is about to walk into the next room with you and affect every person in it. You know the emotional pulse — name it in one word. But what do you do when the mood needs to shift and you have ninety seconds in a hallway to do it? This is where emotional recall becomes one of the most practical EQ tools a Christian leader can carry. The science is straightforward: your brain cannot distinguish between a vividly remembered emotion and a present one. When you recall a moment where you laughed until you could not breathe — genuinely recall it, with detail, with the faces and the sounds — your nervous system responds as if it is happening now. Cortisol drops. Your chest loosens. Your face changes before your mind catches up. Saturday’s anchor — Living and Leading from a Loved Heart — taught the practice of Receive Before You Lead. Emotional recall is one way God’s love meets that practice in the hallway between rooms. The joy you remember is not random — it is fruit that God grew in a real moment of your life, and He does not waste it. Scripture reveals that joy is not a mood to manufacture — it is a gift God has already deposited in your story. Emotional recall is the act of returning to what He has already given.
Clarity
What mood am I about to carry into my next conversation — and is it the one I want leading in that room? Use your feelings chart to name it in one word.
Hear
**”A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones”** (Proverbs 17:22, ESV). God designed joy to heal — not as denial, but as medicine. Scripture reveals that a joyful heart is not naive or disconnected from reality. It is a heart that has access to something stronger than the last meeting’s residue. God renews your emotional state not by erasing the hard thing but by reminding you that the hard thing is not the whole story.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love has already deposited real joy in my story — moments of laughter, connection, and delight that my body still remembers — how would that change the mood I carry into my next room today?
Walk (30–90 seconds)
Right now, before your next meeting or conversation, close your eyes for ten seconds. Recall one specific moment where you laughed so hard you could not stop — the faces, the sounds, the absurdity of it. Stay with it until you feel your chest shift. Then pray: Father, thank You for that moment. You gave it. I receive it again right now. Walk into the next room carrying what He deposited, not what the last meeting left behind. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
If you had to put this into one sentence for today, what would you say God is inviting you to rest in or return to?
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