After visiting with many of you at wedding receptions I am quite impressed with how you conduct yourselves. Grandpa & I do COMPANIONSHIP STUDY every morning from a book "Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice'
- This impressed me very much. Hope you enjoy it: (Matt 5:21-22)
The phrase 'without a cause' in the KJV is omitted from many of the oldest biblical manuscripts and from the Savior's sermon to the Nephites at the Temple Bountiful. Anger, a secondary emotion and a reactionary one, is not an acceptable emotion. It is not inspired of God, does not build relationships, and seldom solves problems. Rather, it builds walls between people, nurtures resentments, and stifles the flow of the pure love of Christ. President David O McKay declared:'Never must there be expressed in an LDS-home an oath, a condemnatory term, an expression of anger & jealousy or hatred. Control it! Do not express it! You do what you can to produce peace & harmony, no matter what you may suffer. The Savior set the example. He was always calm, always controlled, radiating something which people could feel as they passed'
I'm working on it!!
love to all
Grannie
1 comment:
What an interesting comment! I've really been trying to figure out how to deal with parental anger. Stifling it makes it just blow up worse later, but expressing it unfiltered is just... no. One thing I've learned is that our bodies are wired to respond aggressively when a stressful event occurs, it's "fight or flight" thing. It's like the natural man because it's our automatic, natural response and we consciously have to choose another way. The best thing that helps me is breathing deeply when a stressful situation arises and I feel angry. That way I acknowledge it and feel it and try to resolve it but I don't act on it. Once I get control I can respond from a centered place instead of an auto-response.
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