Hi Dear Bob...
First off, welcome; I'm so glad you're here. You have always been such a blessing to us all. We absolutely treasure you. I want you to know that your pain is our pain. We are all here for each other, to hold each other up in love and compassion despite the obstacles Life’s road deals each and every one of us. How can we not grieve and be hurt when people who we care so much for and love “appear” to betray our very trust in them with their deep emotional turmoil via lashing out at us? But this is a surface perception; it has more dimensional and spiritual implications that are clouded and we don’t usually recognize the true breadth of the situation. We’re merely nearsighted humans with human emotions and vulnerabilities, and it’s so hard in the midst of such outbursts to remind ourselves that Jesus took the lashes for us and what is done onto us, the least of His, is also done onto Him. So in this regard we are not to take these things personally, but allow Christ in us to absorb it all and be our Shield; and afterwards through prayer and forgiveness healing and liberation may be set into motion for the sufferer. Anger, though ugly and detestable, is actually a symptom of “woundedness”, usually rooted in a distant childhood trauma that keeps replicating itself through the sufferer’s lifetime in various forms. People react defensively and out of anger in an attempt to shield that woundedness we may have unknowingly agitated; and it is embroiled in an awful dread, a dread people are unwilling to confront and face; they react with hostility to protect themselves (the anger is a “defense mechanism”), attempting to thwart exposure of the deeply entrenched pain of that childhood woundedness because it is so utterly unbearable to re-experience. It would be like DEATH. When these encounters occur, the Holy Spirit is using you and us as a catalytic tool to expose the woundedness to the “LIGHT” and to extremely needed prayer so that the sufferer can be healed, liberated from the pain and made whole in Christ. So though our first reaction is to recoil from such an experience and be hurt as a victim of the anger, in reality it is not a negative experience, but a situation clamoring for the attention of the Great Physician in proxy through us, His earthly hands, to bring healing to all in the circle of the drama. More so, when we pray for someone’s healing then, simultaneously, we are also blessed and healed in the process as well, for the prayer is reciprocated back to us as a blessing, and we will usually experience some major healing or spiritual breakthrough that the Lord had orchestrated specifically for us from the very start of the whole affair. It is ultimately a win-win situation for all parties involved, if we can only see beyond the musty veil and fog of the drama, hurt, emotions and apprehend this concept and act upon it. I can personally attest to this principle. Just my two cents.
Blessings…
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