Reflections on Anger with Tristen Collins

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Listen to a discussion from Tristen Collins, author of "Why Emotions Matter," on how to prepare for what could be a difficult end to an already long year. Emotions are important, and we want followers of Jesus to consider how to respond when feelings run high.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to the Bridgestown podcast. My name is Bethany and today I'm honored
0:14.2	to share with you a podcast from our friend, author and brilliant therapist Tristan Collins.
0:20.1	If you're a faithful listener, you'll know that Tristan has been with us before and has
0:24.0	been a huge help to us in understanding our responses and emotions in this very crazy
0:29.2	COVID-19 season. Now in this podcast Tristan will share with us some helpful thoughts around
0:34.7	anger and how we navigate it, especially within our current cultural climate. We really
0:40.2	hope you'll enjoy what she has to share.
0:44.4	Hi this is Tristan Collins. It's 2020 and a lot of people are feeling angry. We're angry
0:50.9	about COVID-19, we're angry about social injustice, anger is in our social media feeds and especially
0:57.8	in the comment sections. The economy is unstable and politics are divisive. All of our expectations
1:04.4	are being thwarted and a lot of us are feeling angry. So what are we supposed to do with our anger?
1:11.6	Anger is like fire. It can be the source of energy in life or it can destroy and we know from
1:18.1	recent events when untamed fire is dangerous and deadly. The West Coast just witnessed rapid
1:24.8	fires consuming and destroying everything in their path. In the same way our anger can come
1:30.7	on quickly and become destructive as well. Anger can send your relationships and can lead to
1:36.4	physical violence. Anger can smoke out opportunities. Anger can consume us and burn down communities.
1:43.2	But when fire is managed and contained it can create a lot of good. It can keep us warm as well
1:49.7	as generate energy. Fire can also be used to refine, burning away the dross and revealing a real
1:56.2	treasure. Just like humans learn to use fire as an ally we need to learn how to use our anger as an
2:02.7	ally. Our anger can help us to focus on being agents of change and energize us to confront problems.
2:09.4	And like a mirror, anger reflects back to us our expectations about the world so we can examine
2:14.8	them. God gave us the emotion of anger as a gift and it benefits us to use it wisely.
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