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Something to think and pray about this week on Sacred Space ~ Your daily prayer online Recognising and Accepting Anger If I have been badly hurt I will be angry. This can cause me fear because I know I may not be able to control my anger. I may also feel guilty because I may have been taught that I should not feel angry. But what am I supposed to do with these feelings if others expect me always to be polite, gentle and mild? People do not like to listen to my anger, perhaps because they cannot cope well with their own anger, much less with someone else’s. Anger and revengeful feelings are natural reactions to hurt. I want the persons who wronged me to know what my pain feels like. I want to give them a dose of their own medicine so that they understand what they did. This is a primitive and normal response when you are wronged. It would help so much if my family and friends could accept that my anger is natural and appropriate. Without that I turn the anger on to myself, so that it burns me inside and leads to depression. Or I try to get the burning coals of anger out of my system by aggressive behaviour. Anger and the desire for revenge are normal. In his Passion, Jesus experienced anger and surely also a desire for revenge. We watch how he coped with them, and we learn. The advice, ‘Be angry, but do not sin’ (Ephesians 4:26) gets the balance right. Adapted from Brian Lennon SJ: So You Can’t Forgive…? Dublin: Columba Press, 2009 sacredspace.ie/
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 03:21:08 +0000

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