7.19.2010

Perspective (but just a little bit)

A couple of people have just behaved like hateful assholes to someone I adore. Cruel, selfish, putting him down because it's their only possible defense of their own bad behavior.

I have been fantasizing about all the mean things I could say to them. I've been so furious that my arms tingle, my head aches, and my jaw hurts from clenching my teeth.

I suspect this may be how God feels when we all, when I myself, mistreat people. Well, maybe not the name-calling and the visions of boiling oil, but definitely the anger. It's a thought that dilutes fury with humility.

But I still don't think I should talk to them right now...
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3 comments:

  1. Stratoz8:32 PM

    peace (and anger) cause you can't know the one without the other

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  2. Princess of Everything (and then some)9:46 PM

    We have all felt that way. I never imagined God feeling that way...very interesting.

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  3. Diane M. Roth1:26 PM

    yup. I think God's anger and God's love are related.

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