Turning Rage into Blessing

So many of us feel beholden to rage these days. I am hearing it from people across my many pockets of life and work, and I feel it within myself, too. It is so easy to let the rage take us like a mighty river, where before we know it, we have gotten lost in the white water’s froth. I have been pondering what it might look like to grab onto a proverbial log before flipping over the falls. And while I’ve far from figured out a formula, I thought I’d at least share what I’m working with these days.

photo by Dione Marsen, Unsplash. Image of water gushing upward from a crevice.

Our rage itself is unhelpful, because it has tipped over into toxicity. But our anger has wisdom to offer us. What it is saying is that we care about something, that we are deeply troubled. The problem, of course, is that rage does not offer us the solution to our troubles and only compounds it. So the task is to listen to the wisdom underneath the rage while also firmly rejecting the rage ride that can feel so enticing, if not a little terrifying.