I am considering aggression. It is difficult for me to be overtly aggressive and obviously expressive of angry feelings. Like most Christians, especially pastors, I must be content with showing my displeasure in a more passive aggressive manner. While not nearly as satisfying as a good rant and healthy rage, it has the compensatory benefit of bundling two sins together while denying both. You can get mad and lie at the same time. "Me, angry? Of course not, I am just strongly concerned." "Me, angry? Of course not, I am a simply perplexed by what you have just said or what you just did or what you failed to do but promised to do.Or, by the fact, that you just cut my legs out from underneath me by betraying my trust. But angry? Certainly not! Well, maybe a little disappointed."
Anger, admittedly, is not a very smart feeling to feed and certain it is disconcerting watch it grow inside you. It tends to narrow the mind. Its actions are often impulsive and poorly considered. Anger produces more reactions than reflections. Yet, as someone once put it, anger is always buried alive. In such a state, it produces depression and unattached resentments that become lost to us yet it remains very much expressive.
I wonder what the Apostle means when he councils the Christian to not allow the sun to set on your wrath. Surely he means for us to find some constructive way to process it.
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I have been getting a series of short comments that are very cryptic. They are not signed and for some reason I can't seem to post them. I am not of the mind to ignore any comment. If that person is reading these comments please write back to my inbox and we can talk. (as it were)
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