It's 5.45am. I've been awake now for 3 hours, after tossing-and-turning the two hours before that. In all, it's been a restless night. So many things have my mind racing. Not the least of which, how to respond to certain situations -- I'll spare everyone the details -- that initially wanted to release my anger. Now, I'm far more sad. Responding in anger, I think, is easy. Anger is the emotive response our culture does well. We know how to respond in anger to those who abuse or mistreat us, or those we know. Finding myself emotively angry, even if justifyingly so in others' eyes, isn't necessarily wrong. It's all in what we Christians do with such anger. Because, let's be honest, anger controls us -- controls me -- in ways we hardly want to admit. We are taught that our anger (along with our happiness) are truer, more trustworthy emotions. I shouldn't deny them, sublimate or control them, be...
A "restless" theologian in service to the church of Jesus Christ