Anger is a kaleidoscopic darkness. It is a response to fear both perceived and real: fear of death and the things that lead to it,that feel like it. Hunger, failure, isolation and injury are root fears shaped by our experience of life, in an evolutionary, historical and psychological sense our humanity has been shaped by the darkness of fear.
Anger is not just one emotion but a system of interlocking feelings, emotions and thoughts that constitute one very basic system of our response to anxieties, threats, injuries and losses. These responses form a spectrum of anger from annoyance to rage.
The problem with anger is not that it is inherently bad. Anger is a part of the natural order of life. It is an aspect of the design of life and whether you believe that design to be a wondrous accident of organic and iinorganic elements or imagined and inaugurated by a benevolent creator, the design itself affirms life.
The problem is with how we allow anger to use us. The challenge is In how we achieve the proper balance in our responses to what life brings us, how we deal with the great and powerful gifts of our nature, in other words, it is a spiritual problem.
I am struggling this morning so profoundly troubled, but I know God is with me because there is truth power and beauty in my thoughts. I prayed and this note is god"s gift to us. - Toby D. Sanders
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