“The internet stopped working again. Whose fault was it this time? How am I supposed to get work done when everyone keeps unplugging my internet?” These were the thoughts going through my mind as I was working in my new makeshift basement office. It was already frustrating that I had to quickly adapt to this new work-from-home set up but to have my internet keep going out in the middle of meetings was frustrating. And this time was the last straw.
I would like to say it was at this moment that I realized how much I was overreacting, but it wasn’t. I proceeded to walk up the basement stairs and let my wife know, in no uncertain terms and in no uncertain volume, just how frustrated I was about this disruption to my productivity.
I See My Sin More Clearly
Being quarantined these last few weeks has not made me an angrier person, but it has highlighted just how much I want things to go my way. Life is not convenient right now and I am seeing just how much I expect that it should be.
The biblical counselor’s go-to verses on conflict tell it like it is:
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