The book I have been reading is Gary Chapman’s Anger-Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way  Throughout this book, he teaches us how to recognize the difference between “bad” and “good” anger and how to drive anger into a positive change. He described anger as “a light flashing on the car’s dash; it indicates that something needs attention”.

This is how I tend to handle anger and confrontation. I back away from confrontation any chance I can get. I’m not technically backing away, I am supressing. Supressing issues and wrongs that have been committed which ususally ends in an explosion of some kind.   This book has allowed me to take inventory of all the wrongs in my life and a chance to find healing.

Maya Angelou once said, “I can be changed by what happens to me. I refuse to be reduced by it.  Anger should spark a change, a positive one, but it should not diminish you into a bitter and joyless individual.  You can make a change without diminishing in heart.

Love in Christ,
Nichole