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Two simple things we must do with our anger today.

Two simple things we must do with our anger today.

Garrett Jones
Politics

If there's one thing that has crossed party lines, transcends race, gender, age, and creed without bias, it is the fact that we've all had something to stew about in these days. The right rages worried that their will has been violated and their voices not heard—fearful that an election (and their hoped-for country) has been stolen from them. The left lurches with loathing over the putrid pandering to a puerile pack of proud-less proud boys. If you've denounced and renounced violence done in the name of a cause, good for you, but many on both “sides” of our alternate realities are still ANG-A-RY. And that anger, left unprocessed, will be the undoing of our nation. "United we stand," will give way to "divided we fall," if we do not act fast.

Stop numbing your pain. Grieve your losses to experience true joy.

Stop numbing your pain. Grieve your losses to experience true joy.

Garrett Jones

Trotter taught us that failing to grieve can actually inhibit how much joy we feel in life, as well. When we numb the lows, we numb the highs, as well. “People who don’t grieve are flat,” he said. He closed with this good news: “Grief can expose us to the comfort of God and can help us consider eternity.” He also reminded us that God’s comfort never expires. God will never say to us, “you should have processed that loss decades ago…you’re too late!” His comfort is always within reach. The point of processing grief, according to Trotter, is to be fully alive…to feel life to the fullest.