Emotions are a daily experience in our lives.
As long as we are conscious, emotions are a regular daily occurrence, though some may feel more emotions that others.
Emotions are neither good nor bad.
They are just an indication of how we are feeling, but it is necessary to pay attention to how we are feeling and what emotions we are having.
In the 1st reading, Cain was very angry and downcast because the Lord looked with favour on Abel’s offering but not on Cain’s.
The Lord highlighted it to Cain when He said: Why are you angry and downcast? If you are well disposed, ought you not to lift up your head? But if you are ill disposed, is not sin at the door like a crouching beast hungering for you, which you must master?
Those words that the Lord said to Cain are also the very words that the Lord is speaking to us when we are feeling the negative emotions like anger, resentment, bitterness, disappointment, frustration, etc.
The Lord wants to help us master the beast of negative emotions so that we will not end up doing something tragic which we will regret later.
More importantly, we let the Lord be greater than our emotions as He speaks through our emotions.
When we offer our emotions to the Lord, He will surely look with favour on us.