How to Deal with Anger When You’re Hurt
Peter Cooper
We all get a little bent out of shape if things don’t go our way, and it’s not uncommon for us to feel anger at someone who causes us harm. As religious people, we can set up a hierarchy of transgressions, in which getting drunk is a huge no-no, but we permit anger because we feel justified in it. We can cloak our anger as righteous, virtuous, and merited, all the while yielding to what may truly be a vice. Augustine said, “Is it any merit to abstain from wine if one is intoxicated with anger?” (Augustine) These are words worth remembering. And C. S. Lewis is right in suggesting...
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