How to Pray When You're Pissed at God: Or Anyone Else for That Matter
The emotion most people are wariest of is anger. Yet not expressing—or at least acknowledging—anger, we’re told, may lead to a host of illnesses, including depression. What to do? Bring it to the Lord in prayer, Punnett says. If that seems outrageous, it’s nevertheless prodigiously attested in the Bible, especially among the Psalms. Problem is, Punnett continues, contemporary Christians tend not to know that. Punnett does, and he uses this fact in his ministerial work, which has been a sideline to his career as a radio host. (He’s just abandoned that career because of aggressive tinnitus—something to be ticked at God about, indeed!) Although he helpfully tells stories of angry prayer at work, Punnett may prove most useful for most readers because of the treasury of angry prayers—his own Psalms-based examples; 16 more, mostly freer-form, by “everyday folks”; and 24 classics of the genre from Psalms—that fill more than half the book. Very fine common-language devotional literature. --Ray Olson