Anger And Bitterness

[Guest MrsS]

I subscribe to Beliefnet, this article was featured 4 June 2006. Generally I don't like Billy Graham ~ but for some reason I didn't even see his by-line. When I finished reading, I had to find out who wrote this. Guess, I shouldn't be so one way. It is really a good article.

Emotions That Destroy: Anger and Bitterness

Every destructive emotion bears its own harvest, but anger's fruit is the most bitter of all. Uncontrolled anger is a devastating sin, and no one is exempt from its havoc. It shatters friendships and destroys marriages; it causes abuse in families and discord in business; it breeds violence in the community and war between nations. Its recoil, like that of a high-powered rifle, often hurts the one who wields it as well as its target. Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger.

The entire article can be found here:

http://www.beliefnet.com/nllp/Inspiration....date=06-04-2006

[Guest Monica]

It all depends on what kind of anger it is. There is such a thing as righteous anger.

Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27Neither give place to the devil.

There is plenty to get angry about when things are done unjustly or wickedly. God Himself gets angry. What is wrong tho is to just be an angry grumpy and mean person.

[Sugarbay]

Or a chronic deceiver.

[Lindy]

Anger and Bitterness..... excellent article Mrs S. Thanks for sharing it... I grew up listening and watching Billy Graham..... and still think he is a great man of God :)

What he says is so true... anger and bitterness ARE destructive emotions. That's when we find the power of forgiveness to help chase away those emotional demons. Sure there are lots of types of anger..... but it's how we handle that anger that makes us or breaks us.

Billy Graham had some great things to say on that issue.... I encourage everyone to read the link that Mrs S provided.

[boyando]

I subscribe to Beliefnet, this article was featured 4 June 2006. Generally I don't like Billy Graham ~ but for some reason I didn't even see his by-line. When I finished reading, I had to find out who wrote this. Guess, I shouldn't be so one way. It is really a good article.

Emotions That Destroy: Anger and Bitterness

Every destructive emotion bears its own harvest, but anger's fruit is the most bitter of all. Uncontrolled anger is a devastating sin, and no one is exempt from its havoc. It shatters friendships and destroys marriages; it causes abuse in families and discord in business; it breeds violence in the community and war between nations. Its recoil, like that of a high-powered rifle, often hurts the one who wields it as well as its target. Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger.

The entire article can be found here:

http://www.beliefnet.com/nllp/Inspiration....date=06-04-2006

First let me say that I believe that Billy Graham has done a lot of good, were ever he goes. I wish I didn't have a "but monkey"," but" I can only agree with about half his statement.

Most of the time Anger and Bitterness only hurts the one who has it. Some times if I am angry with someone, they don't even have a clue.

Wars are not started out of anger but by men who are power hungry and use anger and bitterness to acheive conquest.

It may be that I look at things, through different eye's because I grew up with depression. I feel that anger and bitterness, along with pride are the cheif causes of depression. In my life, forgiveness and humility are the cure.

I don't like splitting hairs and it is very easy to see that Billy Graham is trying to do good. Refinement is in the details. It is so hard to leave that "but monkey" out.

[prisonchaplain]

Generally I don't like Billy Graham ~

I really don't want to hijack this string with a side topic, but I gotta ask: Why not?

Graham is one of the least controversial, cautious, well-loved evangelists of the last 50 years. He's preached in China and North Korea, and he's taken flack for including a broad spectrum of churches in his campaigns. Granted, he's not LDS. However, as evangelicals go, he's about as mild and accepting as you can get.

[Guest MrsS]

Why Not?

To listen to him, he just grates against my nerves. His voice is like chalk screeching across a blackboard! I have never had an opportunity to "read" any of his talks until just now.

I can't watch President Monson talk either. I can listen to him but not watch.

BTW ~ It doesn't matter where a person has or has not preached, whether they are religious or not, my dislikes are based more on whether or not I can tolerate their voices or visual presentations, and on what the Spirit whispers to me.

As for Billy Graham, because of my hearing disability, his voice hurts my ears. As do a lot of the singers out there in this world. I also can not listen to a lot of the members of my own ward ~ even if I do turn down or remove my hearing aid.

I can only converse with my little sister over the phone. Her voice is extremely painful to me "face to face". 90 percent of children are painful to me too, unfortunately. I can only hear the deep voiced males with my hearing aid.

So you see, it is not about their station in life, their religion, what they do or do not preach, or how beloved they are by any one group or more.

I couldn't get past his voice to hear the message! AND as I have been LDS since I was 14, why would I search out any of his sermons? I was searching out the talks of the LDS.

[prisonchaplain]

So, MrsS--the bottom line is that Billy Graham is not "music to your ears?" I guess I can live with that. :-)

[Christos]

I believe that the most dangerous of emotions or mindsets is Pride.

It can lead to so many bad things and is usually the root of the evil.

(K.J.V. of 1611)

Pro 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction: and an hautie spirit before a fall.

Pro 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, then to diuide the spoile with the proud.

(K.J.V. as we know it )

Pro 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Pro 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Gotta love the Early Modern English spelling

[StrawberryFields]

I believe that anger and bitterness stops our progression completely. Also to be anger with someone or because of a situation hurts the one holding that with them. When I die I would like to travel as lightly as I can. I don't want my earthly "baggage" weighing me down. These feelings left undealt with I believe can make us physically ill IMO.

[Serg]

I believe Graham is one fellow to admire

[Winnie G]

Every once in a wile I print out and post words of wisdom next to my bathroom mirrior.

This has been one of them. The last one was:

"What is your Greatest Fear?"

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from out fear, our presences automatically liberates others.

- Marrianne Williamson