{"id":84,"date":"2012-10-05T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/when-its-not-good-to-look-the-other-way\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T11:23:00","slug":"when-its-not-good-to-look-the-other-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/when-its-not-good-to-look-the-other-way\/","title":{"rendered":"When It’s Not Good to Look the Other Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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There is a festering anger across the world. The images of embassies burning, signs in the streets and shouting masses make us shudder. Here in America, we are more civilized, but no less angry. We take to the airwaves and gather around water coolers and get behind the wheels of our cars to express our our frustrations.<\/span>

<\/span>We are angry at government, angry at employers and angry at the economy.<\/span>
At personal levels, we express\u00a0similar\u00a0dissatisfaction with coworkers, neighbors and family members.<\/span>

<\/span>There is a time to be angry. If we aren\u2019t moved enough to be emotional at the evil in life, we won\u2019t be moved enough to do righteousness. At times, we need to be shaken to the core with indignation. Anger motivates us to right things, to act. We will never run from persistent sin in our lives, until we get angry enough to start making changes.<\/span>

<\/span>But righteous anger is parceled out in very small portions because we simply do not know how to use it properly. Just look at holy wars, forced conversions, and abortion clinic bombings. We see anger on both sides of the presidential race \u2014 and there\u2019s little righteousness in it.<\/span>

<\/span>Is is possible that we aren\u2019t angry enough? Do we let the innocence of little boys and girls be stolen from right in front of us? Do we allow the thief come and destroy our families, our marriages and our honor? Do we simple look away when the things that are most precious to us slip away, simply because we are passive?<\/span>

<\/span>God, help me be angry about the right things and help me to let go of unrighteous anger.<\/span>

<\/span>Of the\u00a0Seven Deadly Sins<\/a>, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back \u2014 in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>\u2013 Fredrick Buechner<\/span>

<\/span>Do you need a little more anger in your life? Or do you swing to the other side?<\/span><\/p>\n

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