Sadness seeped inward as I heard that Amy Whitehouse was silenced for ever.

Angry that the five-foot-challenged phenomenon - the rebirth of the Billie Holiday of my youthful jazz phase - was needlessly extinguished, possibly by the side-effects of addiction.

How did you feel on hearing how Norway's smiling killer taunted his young victims? Bear with me a little, there's a linkage coming up.

And do you also get faintly annoyed at the Yankee political charade that puts our economy at risk as America tightropes crazily with their will-they/won't-they default on debts before Tuesday's deadline?

Would you feel anger if you were one of those million householders, announced this week, who've had to sell up to escape neighbours from hell?

Welcome to just a glimpse of the Wrath of God. Made in our Creator's image, we also revolt against the rottenness around us.

Certainly, we know it to be wrong to witness the world's evils without reacting against them; without sorrowing over the loss of great talent, or the waste of so many innocent young Norwegian lives; at Yanks 'collective insanity' in playing around with our security, or bad neighbours setting up hell next door.

For the last couple of columns, in the paper and online, we've touched on the apparent contradiction of a loving God producing fear within humans because of his hatred of our sin.

Yet, he wouldn't be a truly loving God and nor would we be caring humans if we didn't react against evil in all its infinite forms.

Be glad that we have a loving God who is angry at sin. Be glad when you, too, feel wrath. You're being Godly.