Anger is something I have always struggled with. When you spend your whole life being rejected, you get angry. I’m angry at the kid in 8th grade who told me to get out of the class while we were watching a movie that was PG-13 and I was only 12. I’m angry at all of the people who cheated off of me because they didn’t want to do the work. I’m angry at some family members because their poor choices burned our relationship. I’m angry at a specific person for a reason I won’t get in to. I have been praying for forgiveness. I have to forgive them. I have to let it go even though it lets go of my control. That doesn’t mean I need those people in my life. It means that I release the burden off of my chest and out of my soul. I was doing so great...until today. Today, I lost it. I was so angry I saw red. There is one piece that needs forgiveness. But not today. That will come. I will still continue to pray for forgiveness, and when the time is right God will release that burden and I will move on. We have to move on. I thought I had anger issues somewhat. That is until I was pregnant with Dawson and that testosterone flowed through my veins. That is a whole new level of anger! That used to be my excuse. I don’t have one now. Now, I have to own it and overcome it.
I just recently finished "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I had no idea what this novel was going to be about going into it; all I knew was that our 10th grade English class study it. Right off the bat I noticed that our narrator was not your average Joe. The narrator is death. When I realized this I said to myself, "Oh this is going to be good." The novel is all about the Holocaust and it is shown from a German point of view. Leisel Meminger's mother gives her away to a foster German family. On the trip to this new family, Leisel's brother dies. So right from the start death is there. I'm not going to give you a synopsis of it, because I think you should read it for yourself. Just know that a German family hides a Jew in their basement for a while, and death is around every corner. That last line of the novel really got me though..."I am haunted by humans."
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