Your Dying Spouse 588 - Anger

I hate to admit it, but sometimes my temper does get short.

Pain does that to one, I suppose, and as I can't lash out at my own body, and going head-to-head with God is kinda stupid, well...

But there is a way out of anger. The sonnet below first appeared as a comment to Debi Walter's blog, The Romantic Vineyard.

A mild answer turns the wrath,

so does the Bible tell,

for anger's the red-lit path

that leads us straight to hell.

Irritation's like a bird

that alights in our hair,

but it would clearly be absurd

to allow it nesting there.

Humility's the greatest grace

to move hot rage along

for we've been in the other's place;

we also have done wrong.

So smile, forgive, don't make a fuss,

'cause God knows, and has forgiven, us.

Music from Billy Joel, with Pressure

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