COOL IT

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THIS IS PART OF A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER THAT BEGAN ON FRIDAY JANUARY 15TH.

Remember Peter in the Garden of Gethsemane and how his anger got the best of him while giving the worst to a Roman soldier.

He had drawn his sword and cut off the nearest ear.

And then Jesus, in so many words, said “Cool it, Peter” after he had drawn his sword and cut off the nearest ear. Actually Jesus said, “…all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”

There is a thing called justice in the scheme of things. And there is a thing called patience. And there is Jesus looking over our shoulder.

Do you have a lot of anger in your life? I hope not…but if you do how much of it have you sown and cultivated by having an ongoing list of those you are currently mad at? Have you given the madness in your life a life of its own?

What I’m saying is, don’t love with your fingers crossed. Don’t love with a frown on both your face and your heart. Anger is a five-letter curse word. And, yes, every one of us has been mad enough to have earned a diagnosis of being temporarily insane. Well, at least I know I have…

Do you read Peanuts? Doesn’t everyone?

At any rate, a number of years ago, Lucy in one of her monologues says, “I have examined my life and found it is without flaw. Therefore, I’m going to hold a ceremony and present myself with a medal. I will then give a moving acceptance speech. After that, I’ll greet myself in the receiving line.”

She concludes somewhat sadly, “When you’re perfect, you have to do everything yourself.”

Come to think of it…this is one of the chief causes of so much of our ongoing angers…everyone else isn’t as perfect as we are….or think we are.

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. —Proverbs 14:29

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