DreamBuilders Ministry in Motion (DBMIM) Ezine, September 25, 2008

-- Book Review: "Uprooting Anger: Destroying the Monster Within," by Kay W. Camenisch, reviewed by Teena Stewart.

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My husband, Jeff, and I enjoyed watching the Olympics this year. The highlight was watching superman Michael Phelps capture eight gold medals—the most gold medals ever won at a single Olympics by one individual. Phelps now holds 14 career gold medals, the most held by any Olympian. He’s a lean, mean, swimming machine.

The lowlight (if there is such a term) was watching both the U. S. men’s and women’s relay teams smoking down the track only to crash and burn losing all hopes of a medal after dropping the baton when attempting to pass it to their partners in preliminary heats.

How could we be so excellent at track and so amateurish at something as simple as handing off a stick?

But that’s not the only baton dropping disappointment I have suffered through recently. The other disappointment has to do with respectable teams dropping the baton in ministry-related areas. Take the area of marriage for instance. Yes, I consider marriage a ministry.

Just a few weeks ago, James* (*not his real name) a well-respected Christian leader I know dropped the baton. A year earlier he and his wife had celebrated their 25^th year of marriage--quite a landmark event in these uncertain times. He and his wife have led a couples’ Sunday School class for some time. And many of these younger couples respected and looked up to them as marriage mentors. James also served as a deacon. So when he suddenly decided to separate from his wife, everyone was stunned. He resigned his deaconship and Sunday School leadership. His reason for separating—he’d lost that loving feeling. Crash! Down came the baton in front of hundreds of spectators.

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I can remember it like it was yesterday. Hot summer in an old, unair-conditioned church, sitting in the front row watching my youngest son walk onto the stage dressed in a medieval costume with his scroll and “reading” his line, “Hear ye, Hear ye.” He then gave the point of the lesson and the memory verse of the day. You have to love Vacation Bible School! Of course, at his age, he couldn’t really read yet. His mother and I ran through the lines over and over again until he had them memorized, but it was the start of a long and beautiful adventure in the arts. For him? Yes, he’s been doing some sort of acting on and off ever since, but one of those nights launched something for someone else as well. Me.

You see, I was in a strange place. I had been a Christian for probably a little over a decade, but really serious about it for a few months. What happened to the rest of the decade? Something got in my way. What was it? Art.

Yes, that’s right - art - my God given gift, the thing I had done since I was three years old and probably even before that. It was the thing I am writing about every month in this column. Today it is my favorite tool with which to serve the Lord, but for a long time it was a stumbling block in my walk with Him.

by Kay W. Camenisch (2007, Trafford Publishing, 154 pages, ISBN #1425112005)

The anger, hurts, and frustrations Kay Camenisch and her husband witnessed while counseling parents struggling to raise Godly children and while directing a residential treatment center for juvenile delinquents, led her to write Uprooting Anger.

Anger manifests itself in a variety of ways and rarely do we deal with it in a healthy way. Often it is caused by pride issues and past hurts. The deeper the hurts, the deeper the anger issues. Camenisch has developed a workbook with 31 biblically focused meditations covering anger subjects and lessons on coping with anger in a healthy manner. Some of these include rebellion, trusting God, controlling the tongue, guidelines for forgiving, self-centeredness, bitterness, and many other connected topics.

Each chapter includes a lesson and scripture passage, and prayer, followed by an application section that walks you through passages a few segments at a time. You’ll have the opportunity to write your answers as you work through the book and the end of each chapter includes additional scripture passages related to the chapter theme.

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