Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life. James 1: 19-21 MSG Facing Your Anger Divorce Care By Steve Grissom & Kathy Leonard WHEN IS ANGER A SIN? - Day 62 If God says be angry but not to sin,how do you know when your anger has crossed the line of sin? Anger is sinful when it rises up quickly, taking over rational thought. Ecclesiastes 7:9 says, "Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools." Betsy says, "I saw his car, and I took a big rock and i smashed it through the windshield, and that was just a release of the anger. It was humiliating. It was a big mistake. I shouldn't have done that." LET IT OUT - Day 63 "It's o.k. to be angry at God when you've been divorced," says Dr. Myles Munroe. "Go to God. Shout at Him. Tell Him you hate it... God wants you to tell Him how you feel so lonely and how you got the bad end of the deal. Lock yourself up in your bedroom and scream at God. You've got to let it out." This deliberate act of expressing anger in a safe place should be done in private, just between you and God.... It may help to have a regularly scheduled time when you close the door and release your anger in shouts and tears. This will help you train yourself to express anger in appropriate times and in appropriate places; the best time is not when you are immediately reacting to someone's words or actions. As weeks and months go by, and you have spent regular time with God expressing your emotions, you will find that the worst of your anger has been effectively spent. ~ Much of this is a common sense refresher... But I must say, common sense has a way of going out the window when passions rise. I appreciate the advice about training ourselves to express anger appropriately. Training is a concept that is becoming more real to me since I began running long distance. It is encouraging to know that you can start out pathetically out of shape and with consistent effort it becomes easier. Thank God, good things, like expressing anger appropriately, becomes more natural as we diligently press on and allow the Lord to train us in His ways... | 
