I receive devotional emails weekly from jesusfreakhidout.com, and this weeks email was a good one. I had a really rough weekend. Another weekend of dealing with my son and his father’s anger. Jason and Jordan recently starting going to anger management therapy. They are both in great need of finding outlets for their anger other then hitting, throwing and other violent means. Given the fact that Jordan was not around his father barely any through his past years of growing up, this is clearly a situation of nature over nurture. I have done everything I can to try to get Jordan’s rage under control. He has even gone to the extreme of hitting his sister every time he’s mad (and if you know Faith, she is a very passive little girl). Now to my frustration Jase has began showing the early signs of this violence. This weekend he was caught bitting a toy and growling at a toy because he couldn’t get it to do what he wanted. Both boys have the habit of hitting themselves when they are upset.
Just talking about all this makes me frustrated, I’ve now forgot where I was going with this … this is an excerpt from my weekly devotional email..
“Jesus said: “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter…that He may remain with you forever.” (John 14:16 AMP) When we received Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, He sent His Spirit to indwell us, and to minister to us every moment of every day. But while the Holy Spirit’s power is always available to us, it helps if we carry our hurts and heartaches to the Lord in prayer, and ask Him to help and heal us. Sometimes I’m hurting so much that I can’t think of anything else but my pain–it literally consumes me. If I will take some time out to be alone with God and His Word, I always discover just how eager and able He is to calm me down and cheer me up. Scripture says: “I, even I, am He who comforts you.” (Isaiah 51:12-13 NIV) God longs for us to reach out to Him in times of trouble. When we do, He rewards us with the kind of comfort that only He can give.”
In my frustration with dealing with the daily issues of the seemingly genetic attributes my boys have picked up from their father I will seek comfort from the Lord. I will pray that he will give be strength and wisdom to deal with these ongoing issues and that they will find the peace needed inside themselves to let the anger go.
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