![]() ![]() It is all too easy to give way to feelings of “righteous” anger and it is all too easy to allow such anger to compromise our love for neighbour, a love which is not an option for the Christian but a commandment. I am very aware, however, of the danger of allowing myself to become angry with the ways of the world and by the waywardness of those who are the champions of the world’s wickedness. ![]() I was received into the Church when I was 28 years old, having misspent my youth in the daze and haze of anger-driven animosity.īy the grace of God and by His healing hand, I no longer hate my neighbours, not even those of my neighbours who hate me and the Church. Lewis, I found my way falteringly towards Christian belief and the Catholic Church. The angst and anger had metamorphosed all too easily and readily into hatred of my neighbour.īy the grace of God and by the reading of good books by good men, such as G.K. ![]() I was animated by an unhealthy psychological cocktail of angst and anger, my animation being driven by an animus against those whom I considered to be my country’s enemies. As a hot-headed patriot, I decided that it was my duty to fight for my country. I believed that the world was in a mess and that my own country was in even more of a mess than the rest of the world. Many moons ago, long before my reception into the Catholic Church, I was a very angry young man. Anger is indeed an energy but energy is not always necessarily good! ![]()
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