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Daily Meditations – Dealing with anger — Matt 5:20ff

The motor of a woman’s car died just as the traffic light turned green. She desperately tried to restart it but couldn’t.

A very impatient man behind her began honking his horn. Again and again, she tried to start her but no luck. Now the man was getting angry and was honking more persistently.

The woman had all she could take from him. She got out of her car, and walked back to the man, and said gently, “Sir, I’d be delighted to honk your horn for you if you would be kind enough to start my car for me.”

It’s hard to say what impresses us most in that story, the irrationality of the man or the ingenuity of the woman!

When we experience anger, do we act irrationally, like the man, or calmly, like the woman?

There are some people who just seem to get very angry and go berserk over the simplest things. A father and son were getting on a bus and apparently weren’t moving fast enough. The bus driver suddenly lost his temper and yelled and humiliate them in front of all the passengers.

After it was all over, the boy told his dad that he didn’t have to take that. The father just smiled and said, “Son, that poor man has to put up with himself 24 hours a day. The least I can do is put up with him for two minutes.”

These are two good examples of how we should deal with people who are angry without becoming hurtful ourselves. The Lord tells us in Matthew, “The angry person is liable to judgment.”

May God Bless.

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