We are never angry for the reason we think. I forget where I first read that, but it has proven to be true in my experience. Ever since I realized that anger is fear looking for a fight, I've learned to strip my anger down...examine it in order to find what exactly I'm afraid of.
Peace will never by ours until we accept that that person who said and/or did us wrong (or that illness that has laid us low, or...etc.) is not at fault. There is no fault. There is only misdirection. We need to look not out there but within. If we keep looking out there, we for sure will identify the villain (them), or, more truthfully, the victim (us). No. The so-called fault is ours for accepting by our resistance that which we are choosing to believe has come to us...and unfairly to boot.
If we don't pick it up, it can't touch us. If we do pick it up, it becomes our tar baby. Only forgiveness, pure and simple, washes away the tar baby. And forgiveness is of God...it cannot be self-willed. God is not available on demand...God is.
Thank you.
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