Mood Tides examines the nature of the self as seen by famous thinkers and then searches the Scriptures to discover God the Creator s perspective. Ronald Horton explains that our emotional selves mirror God s own being and that the rhythms of life are designed to help us experience and understand all that He wants us to learn. Accepting the heights and depths of emotion as natural and intended can free us to become the completed Christians that God desires us to be."