Emphasis Preaching Journal

Garret Keizer in his provocative book, The Enigma of Anger, tells a story about his father-in-law who lives in a three-story house on a small yard in the middle of a blue-collar town in northeastern New Jersey. Although his father-in-law is in poor health, he likes to keep his place neat, his porch painted, and the grass mowed and trimmed. His neighbors' overarching trees drop leaves and twigs in his yard and those who pass by his home have a tendency to leave their litter on his sidewalk.