When hurts turn into anger ...
When hurts turn into anger ...
STTA seemed to have been making lots of news lately, especially with the achievement of a long-awaited silver medal from the table-tennis team after 48 years, with the absence of a coach to boost Gao Ning in the man's table-tennis match, the untimely decision concerning the fate of the head coach and team manager.
From what the press has reported, Gao Ning seemed to have broken the silence ever since the incident happened. He does seemed to have been really badly hurt - when he felt preferential treatment was given to the female players, when he felt really lost and alone during the match, when he felt unfairly treated even during his days of practices where focus seemed to zoom in only on the female players, when he felt worse than a second-class citizen.
I have no rights to comment on whatever he has spoken and shared - afterall it had been a really painful and hurting experience, or perhaps "nightmare" which he would never want to re-live. Yet when I read about how he spur himself on for the 2012 Olympic Games, with words that seemed to burn with fury and anger, I can't help but become a bit worried for him.
It led me to think about how hurts inflicted on another person can lead the victim to turn into "another" person - one that is consumed with anger, fury, rage, vengeful thoughts, hardening of heart as defense and protective mechanism, etc. While we should try at all cost not to be the ones that hurt another person who is himself/herself made in the image of God, we should perhaps also learn to surrender our hurts and wounds to the Lord, in the unfortunate situation when we become the victim of another person's affliction.
I mentioned in my previous post that I had also just emerged from a difficult week - honestly, if it had not been the Word of God that sustained me, and the note a brother shared via FB, I would still have held on to the hurts and the pain felt, and together with it anger and fury to those whom I felt had done me wrong. But well, I've recognized my own faults in the entire incident and had realized that I had been responsible to a large extent concerning what had happened. I've learnt to let go and let God ... I've learnt to forget whatever is unpleasant that I may have more brain cells to hold on to good memories instead ... I've learnt to close the case and move on.
When hurts turn into anger, it can snowball into something big and dangerous. I'm not sure about you, but if you are willing, please join with me to pray for Gao Ning that he will experience the healing of the Lord despite the painful incident.
Prov 30:33 "For as churning the milk produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife."
STTA seemed to have been making lots of news lately, especially with the achievement of a long-awaited silver medal from the table-tennis team after 48 years, with the absence of a coach to boost Gao Ning in the man's table-tennis match, the untimely decision concerning the fate of the head coach and team manager.
From what the press has reported, Gao Ning seemed to have broken the silence ever since the incident happened. He does seemed to have been really badly hurt - when he felt preferential treatment was given to the female players, when he felt really lost and alone during the match, when he felt unfairly treated even during his days of practices where focus seemed to zoom in only on the female players, when he felt worse than a second-class citizen.
I have no rights to comment on whatever he has spoken and shared - afterall it had been a really painful and hurting experience, or perhaps "nightmare" which he would never want to re-live. Yet when I read about how he spur himself on for the 2012 Olympic Games, with words that seemed to burn with fury and anger, I can't help but become a bit worried for him.
It led me to think about how hurts inflicted on another person can lead the victim to turn into "another" person - one that is consumed with anger, fury, rage, vengeful thoughts, hardening of heart as defense and protective mechanism, etc. While we should try at all cost not to be the ones that hurt another person who is himself/herself made in the image of God, we should perhaps also learn to surrender our hurts and wounds to the Lord, in the unfortunate situation when we become the victim of another person's affliction.
I mentioned in my previous post that I had also just emerged from a difficult week - honestly, if it had not been the Word of God that sustained me, and the note a brother shared via FB, I would still have held on to the hurts and the pain felt, and together with it anger and fury to those whom I felt had done me wrong. But well, I've recognized my own faults in the entire incident and had realized that I had been responsible to a large extent concerning what had happened. I've learnt to let go and let God ... I've learnt to forget whatever is unpleasant that I may have more brain cells to hold on to good memories instead ... I've learnt to close the case and move on.
When hurts turn into anger, it can snowball into something big and dangerous. I'm not sure about you, but if you are willing, please join with me to pray for Gao Ning that he will experience the healing of the Lord despite the painful incident.
Prov 30:33 "For as churning the milk produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife."
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