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“Moles are little animals which dig holes down into the ground, and the dirt they dig up is left in mounds on the surface, like little hills. Why do you ask, darling?”
“I heard Daddy say that you are always making mountains out of molehills. I wish I could make mountains out of molehills. But Daddy said it in a nasty loud voice, and then you shouted back at him, so perhaps it wouldn’t be good to do that.”
My heart caught in my mouth as I realized my little daughter had overheard Tom and me arguing the night before. These arguments seemed to be happening more and more these days. Why was that? After all, Tom knows he’s usually in the wrong. Why doesn’t he just accept that fact and apologize? But he digs in his heels and before we know it we are shouting at each other. And that smart comment about me making molehills into mountains was really the last straw. I wouldn’t have to nag if he did things right in the first place.
But I wish Cindy hadn’t overheard us. And fancy her saying she would like to be able to make mountains out of molehills! I certainly don’t want her to start arguing over everything like Tom and I do. Now I come to think of it, it usually is just a little molehill thing that starts it off. Like him forgetting to pick up the bread on his way home. How come it ended up being about him not knowing how to leave his work at the office, and that makes him forget really important things at home that should matter to him more than trying to please his boss all the time? And then it carried on about him not caring for me or the children. I know that’s not true, and I know he didn’t mean to forget the bread. I had extra bread in the freezer anyway, so why did I have to make such a big deal out of it? If I thought it was going to end up such a big argument, with us both so angry, I wouldn’t have gone on about it.
Hey, maybe that’s the key. I don’t snuff out the anger at the first little mole-hill. I just keep piling up the dirt until it becomes a mountain. Oh, Lord, please help me keep things in perspective, and deal with the molehills before they become like erupting mountains. I don’t want my example of mountain building to be something my little girl wants to follow. Please forgive me for damaging her tender spirit like that.
And I guess I owe my husband an apology too. After all, I forgot to post the mail on the way out this morning!
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Great job of illustrating a most important point. I'll be keeping my eye out for those molehills in the making after this.
creating molehills.
The way this article ends bothers me though.
To say somthing is all our fault for not doing
something, is nothing but self-condemnation.
Sometimes we may not be the blame. Sometimes someone's blatant sin is. Scripture never says
we can't get angry. only
we can't sin in the midst. It's important to
get rid of it too.