Justified anger for socially acceptable...no, morally demanding...reasons is the devil's hidey-hole. I read once in a Rohr book that moral outrage is ego generated.
This came to mind yesterday when I talked with a friend who told me of an older man who has set himself up as a mentor for a much younger, newly divorced woman whose son recently committed suicide. This is a hurting woman. My friend was beyond outraged, had set the older man straight to his face...in all caps with exclamation points galore.
He was not happy, he has not changed; my friend is not happy, she is looking for an "atta girl" or three. I made listening noises. In the face of another's rampaging ego, we do well to rely on the old adage, don't throw your pearls before swine.
We need to keep our self detached from personalizing the situation by thinking of "the Rohr concept" and not the a-hole or the a-hole's behavior. Knowing that moral outrage is ego generated is useful to us only if we realize its truth by experiencing it. Turning our thoughts to love, whether that love be rainbows or roses, turns our thoughts away from ego's outrage, and lets God out to do his cleanup work.
Oh by the way, and more importantly, just believing "Rohr's concept" is truth because it rings true, but never realizing that truth through our own experience, is useful only in setting someone else straight when they are into moral outrage...and that is not useful.
Thank you.
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