Amish Love Be Patient by Rachel Stoltzfus

Author:Rachel Stoltzfus
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Global Grafx Press
Published: 2018-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Joshua sat back, knowing that Abram had had a major breakthrough. “Tell me more.”

Abram sighed. “I know that if Hershberger had been in this room, I would have struck him. Because he wasn’t, I raged at and went after my wife. Hannah. He found me when I was on my way back to the deacon’s after finishing work. Today was...frustrating, but I was dealing with it. Using the skills you taught me. Then, he came after me and tried to make me go after him. He called me a wife abuser and said it wasn’t fair I got to stay as a member, but he and his wife had to leave. I very nearly forgot about not leading him to the deacon’s. When I remembered, I could only think to come here. And thank Gott, I did. Because, if I hadn’t, I would have hurt Hannah. And I...I don’t want to do that.”

Joshua nodded. “How’s your monster now? What is he doing or telling you?” Joshua was busy scribbling notes into his legal pad.

“He’s quiet. He’s satisfied because he made me blow up.”

“Ya, I see what you mean. Abram, just be careful that you don’t shift too much responsibility from you onto your monster. You still have to take responsibility for your actions, no matter what the cause of your anger.”

Abram heard the message Joshua was giving and nodded. “Ya, I’ll be careful. If I hadn’t been so upset from my encounter with Hershberger, I would have had better control.”

Abram’s parents heard Joshua’s caveat as well and vowed they would make sure that Abram always took responsibility for his actions.

“Also, let’s go over the beginnings of an emotion. When I say, ‘You made me mad,’ what I’m actually saying is, ‘I choose to be mad at whatever you’ve done.’ You see, we choose how to respond to something that’s happening.”

“So, Hershberger didn’t ‘make’ me mad, even though he was doing his level best?”

“Ya. You ‘chose’ to respond with frustration and anger. I know, you and your monster needed to release that. But that’s what the exercises and the pillow are for. So you can release them in an appropriate manner. See, you can choose, as long as you have some hold over your temper, to hang onto your responses until such a time as it’s safe to acknowledge how you’re feeling and respond in a way that we’ve agreed is safe.”

Abram nodded, feeling some excitement. “So, does it work that way with other emotions? Like sadness?”

“Ya. Any emotion.”

“I’m putting this into my notebook. Oh. It’s at the deacon’s.”

“Here, write it on this.” Joshua ripped a page out of his pad and gave his pen to Abram, who wrote down everything he’d just learned.

“Now, where is Hannah?”

“Upstairs, with Eleanor. Mamm wouldn’t let me be around her while I was still so angry.”

“If you are calm and can apologize to her, she should come down.”

“I’ll get her.” Martha hurried upstairs.

Hannah came down cautiously. Her face was still tearstained and her eyes red.

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