The emotion of anger keeps appearing at so many places in my day. Last night Joe gave a workshop entitled "Spirituality,Addiction and the Lost Son." Addiction was defined as anything that interferes with you being the person God wants you to be. Recovery was defined as "homecoming." Included in the "addictions" were not only drugs and alcohol but behaviors that are destructive to self and others.
At the close of the workshop one participant talked about her ongoing interactions with her teenage son. She said she enters each conversation from a perspective of her anger. She even talked about pulling into her driveway after work and feeling the anger build as she anticipates their evening together. She talked about this anger as an "addiction" or an "attachment" to a destructive behavior---a behavior that makes her turn her back on God. What an insight!
Then today while out on errands we were passed by cars on either side of us racing and yelling at each other. At the stop sign they almost sideswiped us. They stopped and one driver got out of his car screaming and raising his fist, The other pulled away across the street and was chased in hot pursuit. Road rage.
And then there are the pictures of Baltimore. People angry at injustice. Anger spilling into the streets destroying businesses and other people's lives. Sad, sad, sad.
Today, dear God. help me feel your peace, your Presence. Let me notice when I am irritated-let your grace lead me to peace-not escalated anger.
Blessings-Penny
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