Advice For Handling Anger – Express It, Control It, And Bury It!
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesBrother Ed Boggess, pulpit minister for the Winchester congregation located in Winchester, Tennessee, and one of the authors in “The Fellowship Room,” recently posted some practical advice for handling anger in his “Just-A-Minute“ series of posts (May 23rd posting). So practical in fact, that I wanted to share his thoughts with my readers:
Marital conflict is a fact of life. Disagreement of one degree or another is sure to come. I once had a lady say, “We’ve been married 40 years and have never had a cross word.” I don’t trust a person like that. I figure if they lie about that, they’ll lie about other things too. Some marriages have occasional skirmishes, others have all-out-war. One man referred to his wife as “The War Department.”
I’ve stood at the Southern tip of Illinois, and have watched the great Ohio and Mississippi rivers converge. Where they come together there is a lot of turbulence, but 20 miles downstream the two have become one.
When two people marry, it takes a while to blend two wills into one. Conflict is sure to happen. The question is how to handle it? Is it resolved? or is it kept and nursed until it explodes some day?
Paul said in Ephesians 4:26 KJV, “Be ye angry (that is express it) and sin not (that is control it) and let not the sun go down on your wrath” (bury it).
Good practical advice from the apostle Paul and brother Ed Boggess for handling anger — express it, control it, and bury it!