Anger

What fuels anger?

Why is it that all too often our first reaction is to have a sharp word at someone?

Why do we rage...on the road...in the air...at insignificant crap?

We are selfish, more specifically I am selfish. It is easy to get caught in the trap that you are the star of the show, and that everyone else is supporting cast. It is this belief that our stuff is most significant, that drives anger when others do not think so. When people step out of the boundaries we create for them, then we get mad. In the end it is about control, and honestly our sense of what we control is wrong.

The truth is that everyone is the star in their own production, and therefore none of us are stars. We need each other, we need community, and we have to forgive instead of snipe. We have to accept, instead of nitpick.

You are forgiven, and I am forgiven. Why then do we find it hard to forgive?

You are accepted and I am accepted. Then we need to accept.

The battles we fight are battles of the spirit and of the will. We cannot fight these battles on our own. When we do, we fail, and our adversary advances his position in our lives. God's power over us is more than enough to fight. When we toss it aside it is useless to us, and we get ravaged, and bloodied.

With that power we are capable of extraordinary patience and forgiveness. Without it, we can be jerks.

If you want to hear the kind of forgiveness humans can be capable of, with a nice history lesson thrown in go here: Forgivness


If anything I have said here makes sense or connects, that is great. Honestly though, It is 12:10 at night, I am not sleepy (even though I'm tired), and this is all talking to the mirror.

Back to the silliness later on in the week. :)

-Cliff