Blog 366 – 08.05.2016

If you believe the News, and I don’t most of the time, the world is full of angry people who would just as soon kill you as look at you. Oh, I grant you that there are things that happen to get angry about but as small children most of us were taught how to deal with anger. There is a Bible verse that says, “Be angry and sin not.” A lot of people make a big deal of sin. Sin is missing the mark. So the verse above might better be rendered, “Be angry but don’t mess up.”

I am a great fan of time travel movies and recently purchased the DVD of Looper with Bruce Willis. Bruce travels back in time to kill a young boy who grows up to be a crime boss responsible for killing Bruce’s beloved wife in the future. Armed with the boy’s birthday and the hospital he was born in Bruce narrows his search to three ten year old boys born on the same day and in the same hospital. He kills two before finding the right one.

The young boy Bruce is after has telekinetic powers that ramp up when he is angry and as he loses control great destruction takes place. The only thing that calms him down is his sweet mama’s voice and touch.

The younger version of Bruce is looking for older Bruce and is waiting at the third boy’s home aware that older Bruce is coming to  kill the boy. Old Bruce shoots and his bullet grazes the face of the boy which makes him angry. His anger builds raising the boy’s mom and older Bruce into the air then they both drop and a shock wave knocks them both flat and rolls the truck of the younger Bruce as he is racing to the scene. The mom gets up talks quietly and lovingly to calm the storm inside her boy then tells him to run and hide standing between old Bruce and the boy and is shot dead. Young Bruce sees this happen in his mind and says, “In a moment I see how it all turned out – the angry young boy loses the only love and control he has ever known and grows up to be the killer crime boss. I can think of only one way to change it all.” He then shoots himself, old Bruce disappears and the mom hugs her boy and teaches him to control his anger.

Love can quell anger. When you face something or someone that causes you to be angry let love calm you down before you mess up and make the situation far worse. “Vengence is mine. I will repay says the LORD.” Let LOVE settle all disputes and calm your angry and stormy heart. Anger is most often caused by fear and perfect love casts out fear.

Your friend and fellow traveller,
David White