Seeds of Anger
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--"Look at yourself, Gwen. You’re mad as a hornet. Isn’t that how you got toward Danny just before you hit him? I heard you yell at the poor boy just moments before. You need help." Gwen’s anger escalated. Hate filled her, making her begin to tremble. Ice water dripped through her fingers. "I never hit him and you know it!" she shouted. Her face flushed crimson, making many of her freckles disappear. "Mommy, help me. Don’t let him get me. No, no, stop him!" Danny grabbed at Gwen, pinching her neck. He kicked and screamed in her arms. "Please Danny, there’s no one here except Nana, and she’s about to leave." The pain in Gwen’s neck misplaced her anger as she tried to gently unpry Danny’s grip. "Stop him, he’s going to get me!" He grabbed a handful of her long, red hair. "Danny, there’s no one here." She pulled his arm off of her and turned so he faced his grandmother. "See?" "He’s gone back behind Nana but he was after me." "Oh dear boy," Marilyn said. "There’s no one behind me." "Yes, he is. He’s always there. Except sometimes when he plays with me, Momma. He tried to get me when you started yelling." Marilyn sighed. "Poor dear boy is trying to keep us from arguing. I’ll go upstairs and finish the border. Your mother will take care of you, my most special little friend. Then you come up and Nana will read to you before your dinner." Gwen watched as Marilyn turned and walked out. She marveled at how, without notice, the older woman’s moods could abruptly change. "Come on, Mister Mischief, do you want a morphasizing action hero Band-Aid, or Winnie the Pooh?" "What’s a more zing?" He had relaxed and was now diligently studying the many freckles on her wrist. The sleeves of her sweatshirt were pushed up, exposing the ivory skin of her forearms. "Something that can change itself at will." "I want Pooh."
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We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.
--Henry Watson Fowler
Our society is filled with preachers of positive thinking. Undoubtedly, much of what they suggest is true. Most of us can attest to the successful results we achieve, when we put our mind to it.
But wouldn’t it also stand to reason that the opposite should hold true? That whatever negative energy we create as humans will equally come about?
Seeds of Anger explores this negative result. In it, a family gets so caught up in their own anger and the power it creates, they fail to see that their negative emotion is taking form. This ugly shape takes on a life of its own, created in the family’s negative image.
It takes the eyes of the family’s three-year-old son to first see this brutal creation. The family dismisses the child’s panicked pleas as an over-active imagination.
The entity begins preying on the child to generate greater fear and anger among the family members. Only when things get completely out of control, does the mother consider the possibility that they have attracted this thing through their own negativism.
Not knowing how to defend her son against this monster, the mother turns to an esoteric teacher for help. Through him, she learns how each person in this world creates and attracts their reality around them. He teaches her that the key to protecting her son is not to fight the entity, but to change. Still, the mother is unwilling to totally accept that it’s her own thoughts that could be attracting such an evil form.
It’s not until she comes face to face with her deepest fear that she discovers how real her thoughts can be. Only then does she begin to accept responsibility for her actions and try to change. She soon finds that the seeds of anger grow deep inside, and weeding them out is not easy. She learns how difficult it is to end the vicious pattern of fear and anger in which her family is so mired.
The urgency to change her thoughts and beliefs escalates as the entity attacks out of its own hunger to attract greater fear and anger. The entity manipulates the mother’s emotions by placing her family in dangerous situations. As each horrible thing starts to happen, she struggles to control her own temper instead of reacting with rage. Her only guide is the metaphysical instructions provided by the mystical teacher.
The mother puts into practice the universal laws of how to create what she truly wants in life and how to attract positive, fulfilling surroundings for herself and her family. By doing so, she finally vanquishes the negative entity. She then uses the same principals to replace her old behaviors with ones which create positive opportunities.
About the Author
Steve Merge has been a television news reporter for network affiliates throughout the South and Southeast. During that time, he covered breaking news and reported on business and education topics. He has personally interviewed such notables as Governor George W. Bush and Senator Sam Nunn. Some of his more striking news stories aired on CNN/Headline News. A couple of years ago Steve left the broadcast journalism field so he could find more creative freedom for his writing. The result is his novel, Seeds of Anger. An avid windsurfer, he has appeared in Windsurfing Magazine twice. His article on what it’s like to test windsurfing gear on the infamous North Shore of Maui was published in the March, 1998 issue. Steve holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University. He has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from University of Oregon. His Broadcast Journalism training came from UCLA. Prior to working in television news, Steve had careers in commercial real estate, banking, and executive recruitment.