HOW OFTEN DO YOU HAVE AN ATTACK OF PATIENCE?

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

A pastor was visiting a family one afternoon and everything had gone quite nicely and normal until suddenly the wife interrupted with the words, “I can’t just sit here and say nothing. Pastor, sitting where you are I’m sure everything seems fine…well it isn’t. My husband and our son haven’t spoken in so many years I can’t remember how many.

They live in the same house, pass each other every day and neither one of them will say a word.”
The pastor looked at the man and simply asked, “Is that true?”

“Yes, it’s true. I vowed I’d never speak to him again and I haven’t.”

“What was it all about,” asked the pastor. “I don’t remember,” admitted the man, “but I have kept my vow.”

Anger? Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.

Do we live in an age of rage?

U.S. News reports that a serious crime is committed in America every six seconds, most of them because of anger. The average man loses his temper 6 times a week, the average woman 3. Many psychologists argue that anger out of control is the cause of most depression.

How often do you get mad and why?

Do you get mad at people because they don’t agree with you? So who are you? God?

Do you get mad at people when they don’t act as you think they should? So who gave you the right to write all the rules?

And if you tell me you have never been angry I will figure that you are either in denial or that you are a liar. Because while anger may be only one of the seven deadly sins, it is probably one of the most practiced.

But that is not the point. Not that you get angry or how often but what do you get angry about?

There is only one way you can be angry without its being a sin and that is to be angry at an opinion but not a person; to be angry at an idea, but not at people. Yes, there is such a thing as righteous indignation, but most indignation is not righteous, just indignant.

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