HOW DO I HANDLE MY ANGER (3 OF 3)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Ephesians 4:26
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How Do I Handle My Anger (3 of 3)
Series: Color Me Different
Scott Maze
Ephesians 4:26
It was one of the best-known photographs and most tragic photographs of the Vietnam War. The picture a young burn victim running down the road in terror with her arms outstretched while soldiers walked behind her at his distance. On June 8, 1972, Kim's village came under attack. The South Vietnamese army mistakenly dropped a jelly-like chemical called napalm on some children, severely burning many children. The anguish on nine-year-old Kim Phuc's face was evident to all. More than a third of her body was burned, leaving her with scars that are four times as thick as her skin in some places. After months of hospitalization and many surgeries, Kim returned to her family. Since then, Kim, now in her late 50s, has experienced pain and loss of mobility.
Sometimes simply holding her purse would cause discomfort; she couldn't quite reach out as far as she'd like with her left arm. But what doctors couldn't heal, Kim Phuc says, was her heart. She said, ''The anger inside me was like a hatred high as a mountain.''
Anger is such a potent emotion.
Harvard researcher Walter Cannon described what happens to our bodies when we are confronted by the ''fight'' or ''flight'' syndrome: ''Respiration deepens; the heart beats more rapidly; the arterial pressure rises; the blood is shifted from the stomach and intestines to the heart, central nervous system, and the muscles; the processes of the alimentary canal cease; sugar is freed from the reserves in the liver; the spleen contracts and discharges its contents of concentrated corpuscles, and adrenalin is secreted.''
That's the physiological description of an angry person. Again, anger is such a potent emotion. And the Bible teaches us how to handle our anger: ''Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil'' (Ephesians 4:26).
What makes you angry?
One sist ...
Series: Color Me Different
Scott Maze
Ephesians 4:26
It was one of the best-known photographs and most tragic photographs of the Vietnam War. The picture a young burn victim running down the road in terror with her arms outstretched while soldiers walked behind her at his distance. On June 8, 1972, Kim's village came under attack. The South Vietnamese army mistakenly dropped a jelly-like chemical called napalm on some children, severely burning many children. The anguish on nine-year-old Kim Phuc's face was evident to all. More than a third of her body was burned, leaving her with scars that are four times as thick as her skin in some places. After months of hospitalization and many surgeries, Kim returned to her family. Since then, Kim, now in her late 50s, has experienced pain and loss of mobility.
Sometimes simply holding her purse would cause discomfort; she couldn't quite reach out as far as she'd like with her left arm. But what doctors couldn't heal, Kim Phuc says, was her heart. She said, ''The anger inside me was like a hatred high as a mountain.''
Anger is such a potent emotion.
Harvard researcher Walter Cannon described what happens to our bodies when we are confronted by the ''fight'' or ''flight'' syndrome: ''Respiration deepens; the heart beats more rapidly; the arterial pressure rises; the blood is shifted from the stomach and intestines to the heart, central nervous system, and the muscles; the processes of the alimentary canal cease; sugar is freed from the reserves in the liver; the spleen contracts and discharges its contents of concentrated corpuscles, and adrenalin is secreted.''
That's the physiological description of an angry person. Again, anger is such a potent emotion. And the Bible teaches us how to handle our anger: ''Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil'' (Ephesians 4:26).
What makes you angry?
One sist ...
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