love to those in his life, and he is against violence.  David talks about a struggle in his family.  He finds he is being persecuted by those around him.  Although he has given much to the children of the family, and he has been a loving counsellor - listening to his family’s problems, and so on, in return there have been lies by his sister about his character and he has been excluded from family events.  Such persecution of kind people is common, and recognised by the science of psychotherapy.  The persecution causes him anger, and one day when the badness he witnesses finally makes him crack, he lashes out.  He visits his sister to challenge her, and before she slams the door in his face he puts his foot in the door and tells her what he thinks of her.  

In relating it to the therapist however, all his years of good work don’t influence the therapist.  Although he points out that he is a mild mannered person, the therapist points out that the incident was an act of aggression.  David had to learn a hard lesson.  The lesson, again, is that life is about doing.  He may have thought he was non-aggressive, but he, like all of us, is judged on his actions, not on his words.

Finally, how do doing or praying compare when considering such pressing issues as world poverty?  Consider a family in Africa, on the verge of starvation.  If they had a choice, would they rather we prayed for them, or actually did something, and sent them some food?  There can be only one