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It would be hard not to notice the collective anger right now — how much of it feels manufactured, how easily it turns into "othering." This week, Rev. Dr. Pam Ninneman asked a harder question: not whether we're angry, but what we're doing with it.

A lot of us grew up where anger wasn't allowed. Yet, anger is a powerful tool. It's its own energy; it's information and fuels action. Angry feelings can be uncomfortable, in part because we aren't taught or given tools to adequately or appropriately express them. Examples of types of anger include the mama bear anger that protects and defends, and the bully anger that takes other people's power away and shuts them down. Both are harmful. So how can we use anger for good?

Love isn't something that arrives when conditions are right. It's a force — Martin Luther King's word — and an active one. SOM founder Ernest Holmes said it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find any situation that doesn't respond to love's creative and healing power.

Want to change the world? Be a beetle. Say what? Rev. Larry took us on a journey through the jungle where bioluminescent beetles light the way. What does that mean for us? You don't have to be special to light the way for others; do what lights you up.