Anger or wrath may not raise its ugly head in violence or suicide, but it may be seen again and again in families at Christmas.
Anger is connected to impatience, a lack of forgiveness, revenge, even alcoholism and drug abuse. Anything which is destructive and malicious, such as hatred which are years, even decades old, falls under the sin of Anger.
Interestingly, sullenness or pouting in children is repressed anger and damaging to the person who holds hatred inside. Such things are not "cute" and must not be allowed to continue in children.
Are there members in your family who go over and over past hurts, who remember every harm done to them, who gossip and are malicious to others concerning possible hurts? These are sins of anger.
Most violence comes from anger and the Americas have long histories of anger towards various peoples.
Self-violence is frequently a sign of anger.
In ancient myth and art, the Furies punished people who had sinned with torments of anger and thoughts of suicide. Medusa, the snake headed woman, once beautiful but vain, hated mankind and was eventually killed. Her face is sometimes a symbol of anger.
Do not encourage wrath and stop hateful conversations, or walk away.
to be continued
