I am continuing to read Ann Voskamp’s book, One Thousand Gifts, and here is another paragraph that hit a little too close to home, a little too close to my reality.
Really? I lay my head on the table. Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan’s way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus’ way? Why else get angry? Isn’t it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose – and it is a choice – to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective – more expedient – than giving thanks?
~~Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, p 126
Still diggin',
3 comments:
Ouch heh? I can relate. *sigh*
Wow! Ya, interesting! Never thought of it that way!
OY!!! Sounds like a book I perhaps need to read! It's true though...sigh...hit pretty close to home here too...sigh.
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