Proverbs 22:24-25 (NIV), "Do not make
friends with a hot tempered man. Do not
associate with one easily angered or you may learn his ways and get yourself
ensnared." Is anger
contagious? You better believe it! It's infectious! Highly infectious!
If I started yelling at you, eventually you'd
probably start yelling at me. Anger is
contagious. When we get it out, other
people pick it up.

The way that you express your anger is not anger,
not in your genes – you learned it. You
learned it by growing up and watching other people. If anger is a learned response then it can be
unlearned. That's good news. I don't have to go the rest of my life being
manipulated by my moods. I don't have to
go the rest of my life being controlled by my feelings. I can learn to be patient when everything in
me wants to be impatient.
Just a thought from the front porch…
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