I’m beginning to see a new link between love and anger. So often love is seen as all the soft emotions, unless we’re talking about tough love, a special kind of love that get’s it’s own adjective. Love is tough and tender. It’s angry and hopeful. Love is disconcerting. It makes us strong and vulnerable. We see all this and more in the love of God. Love that is sacrificial and empowering and healing and shows up in anger.
I get angry over stupid things, when I’m tired or when I’m just being petty. It happens more than I would like and I work to not respond in anger. I’m also finding that sometimes I boil with a livid fire that has to do with what I consider to be unethical behavior or when something is wrong and that wrongness threatens something I love like the church, or children. This anger used to embrasss me, but now I see that is closely linked to a hunger for justice. I have to be careful not to be self righteous in my anger, to remember that the people I’m interacting with are beloved children of God. I have to keep listening and working for healing, but my anger can be a tool in helping me to push for what is right, ask a difficult question, or refuse something that is not okay with my own moral compass.
Love is patient and kind and some days angry.
-Eilidh
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