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Fear and Anger posted on June 1, 2009
Fear and anger sometimes get the best of us even if we are people of faith, professing forgiveness in weekly worship and prayer. It is sad, and I pray a learning experience from which to deepen our faith.
Bad day at work?
As parents, what do you offer as an example to the children around you? Perhaps you are the parent who finds time to explain, with love, why your child cannot hit his younger sibling when frustration shows up over the sharing of a toy. Or, because you have had a bad day at work and all you desire in the world was that the evening with the family could redeem humanity because your children would be without the need for you to play referee (unlike the folks you work with) but the kids did not live up to your expectation. Your patience is maxed out and you just lose it and start hollering loud enough for the neighbors to use you as an example to their kids in sibling fight prevention. Anger does show up. So does fear. 
Healthy fears:
Some fears are good to have: fire, earthquakes, floods, people rage taking their rage out on women and children. Perhaps you have taken precautions regarding the above fearful contexts in your life with emergency kits and escape plans. In many Judeo-Christian scriptural texts, the ‘fear of the Lord’ is language used. I think this fear is to require a healthy respect for the Divine as a spiritual discipline. Remember in our daily prayers that one needs a healthy respect for the God of creation, and a good escape plan when war breaks out at home.
Family prayers:
In the context of family life, do we expect to live into our faithful response to God and the common good as part of a healthy respect for the faith that God will take care of things? Over and over in the scripture of my tradition, Christianity, we are invited to let God take care of that which you do not understand. One could ponder and meditate on whether or not this practice will help alleviate fear as we are invited in the mystery of faith!
The Songs:
As parents, you might find some help through the music of Common Good Radio by listening to, Bring Your Best to Their Worst, John Bell and Wild Goose Worship and Forgive me God the Things I Do, by Rob Barrett and Third Street Music, using children’s voices to sing the song. Forgiveness is a life long journey, and bringing our faithful best to parenting is a blessed challenge for growth and love in our lives. If we trust God with our lives, God can do anything! I think God can even love and forgive us as we journey in conversation with fear and anger. As God’s people, who are we to do less?
I hope the music of CGR will enrich your journey of faith as a parent, grandparent or care provider of children.
With blessings for the common good,
Pastor Robin
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This is a quote from a book that I have found sooo amazing. I feel that it explains forgiveness in an easy way to understand. “Forgiveness does not establish relationship. In Jesus, He has forgiven all humans for their sins against Him, but only some choose relationship. ... Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver, to release you from something that will eat you alive, that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. ... When you choose to forgive another, you love Him well.”
By Chris on June 6, 2009