Irrationally Rational

It would be nice if everyone simply acted solely on rationality, but people can't really be rational when they're angry enough to kill.

I don't see that as a problem though.  There are those that say rationality is the ideal; if we could all be perfectly rational, we'd all be fine.  That might be true, but we'd also be terribly boring.  We act in ways that don't always make sense, and sometimes we even know that we're not making sense, and that's ok.

The deepest and most life giving parts of your story are deep and life giving because of something that you felt in that moment.  The worst and lowest points in your story are the worst and the lowest because you felt worse than low.  There was more than emotion in that moment, but to put yourself back in that time; to flip the page back and scan across those words of joy or words of pain, you have to immerse yourself in that joy and in that pain all over again.

This remembering is an emotionally hard thing to do.  Hard things are the most worthy things though.  In relationships they move us the farthest. This is true for God too.

In the one hundred and sixth Psalm, the author recounts how God heard the cries of those He loved.  This caused God to remember the agreement He had made with them, and instead of destroying His people, God shows mercy.  God is moved.  Man moves with Him. 

Humanity can get very frustrated with the fact that we are made in the image of an irrationally rational God.  It's that very frustration that proves our emotional nature.  We're predictable sometimes, but our deepest places aren't places of calculated thought.  No, we are beautifully flim flammy.  Our deepest places are merely tear ducts full of salty joy and pain.