Anger

Be Slow to Anger
By: Leroy Brownlow copyright 1974

Be calm. Hot heads boil fast and let off steam, wasting energy. You can’t win in life’s contest by squandering your energy in wild fury. Wrath is a victory for folly – defeat for the person.

Horace, the Latin poet who died in 8 B.C., said, “Anger is a short madness.” A madness that spurs one to do what he normally would not say. A madness that spurs on to do what he normally would not do. A madness that he later regrets.

One way to lessen your anger is to be in the right. People in the wrong get angry faster. Another way is to think. Some people use wrath as a substitute for thinking. And still a third way, be unselfish. The more self-centered one is, the more easily his temper is ignited.

Proverbs 16:32, 14:17, 15:18, 27:3, 29:22

Jay’s Thoughts on Anger – Three (3) wishes

anger
n 1: a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some
real or supposed grievance

Three (3) wishes

1. I wish I had a nickel for every time that I got angry and said something that I had to apologize for later.
2. I wish that I could see how ridiculous I looked as I am getting angry, with righteous indignation.
3. I wish that I could live the rest of my life and never once be angry.

I told Dave Matlock this evening that I tried last night to write a blog on anger but had to stop because I got to angry to write. Wow, that is pretty lame. The problem was that I just could not find words to define how angry it makes me, at me, to get angry.

The good news is that I have three (3) wishes and I am trying harder than ever to not get angry. I know I can control my anger if I care enough about how I am perceived by my family, friends, co-workers and anyone else I come into contact with. I know I can do it.

Wrap up:

This is Jay McJunkin signing off... Remember "if you think you can or think you can't... you are right"! Now go out and make something happen!!!

By the way... after due consideration and a better understanding of the time required to keep up a daily blog with my limited writing skills... I will limit myself to two blogs a week. I will post my blogs on Monday and Thursday.

Very Respectfully,

Jay