Article April 3, 1976 ISSUE

Re-Viewing the Past

RUSSELL D. ROBINSON

The words stung and hurt. And more followed in angry denunciation. The attack was unwarranted, unjust, mistaken. But I did not reply. Instead, by turning my thought to God I found the strength to remain calm until the tirade was over. The incident passed.

But the memory of it did not. Every now and then I would find myself reliving the whole tongue-lashing experience. Why did the old feelings of hurt, rejection, disappointment, and injustice keep returning? Why was I—years later—still reviewing that event, reliving it in my thought?

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