Word vomit on anger.

The greatest anger is a direct result of betrayal from someone you love. The question is, why? Notice I did not say that betrayal is a result of someone who loves you betraying you - although anger does result from that. But the act of loving another is so massive because it does not require conditionality for the other party. What do we benefit from loving someone and they not loving us back? At first, it seems harmless - they are our muse, our beautiful thing. They give light to the sun and scent to the flowers. But, at some point, love embraces the hideousness of human nature. And, as ones who love, we are required to open our eyes to those things, and still have a tender spirit towards the one we love. Their shadows darken us, their burdens weigh us down.

What a picture this is for our relationship with God - truly! Think of the shadows He takes on, the burdens He carries for those who do not love him. But I am looking at human love, at the moment. We see God's anger as a result of this, but His grace overwhelms it. What of our anger, then? What happens when we are betrayed by those we love and anger overwhelms our spirit? Is that when we fall out of love?

Or is it a driving force? This is what I believe. The anger from a heartbreak can either detect false love or it can test the one who truly loves. If the individual is angered by betrayal from the one they love and then continues to love them, that is true love. That anger is a brilliantly strong substance created to break us and, if fails, builds us.

We need to be angered, but not allow our spirit to become angry. We need the pang and burn of anger to move us, to shake us. The anger that results from love, then, is so complex. The expectations of the one you love are often grey, because love inhibits our rationality. This is why, I believe, the greatest anger results of betrayal from someone you love.