“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
Even for those of us that seek to avoid it, these days it seems the brokenness of the world is inescapable. We are divided in our nations, our communities, and even our families. Old wounds reopen, buried grievances resurface, hidden tragedies are revealed. The way we communicate and engage with each other is changing faster than we can process.
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Let me start off by saying: YES. I am a Christian. But you wouldn’t necessarily know it by looking at the last few days of my life.
I’ve experienced an anger/rage that I’ve never felt before. I’m not sure exactly where it came from, or how it developed, but I know it was there – one of the most “present” emotions I’ve felt in a long time. It wasn’t necessarily directed at any one specific person – but rather several. That’s the best kind of rage, isn’t it? The kind that doesn’t discriminate. The kind that devours any and everything in its path without a second thought. That’s the sort of rage I’m talking about, and it was alive and well in my heart.
The worst part isn’t that I was so angry; it’s that I nurtured that anger as if it was necessary to my survival.
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