We should not be ashamed of anger. It’s a very good and a very powerful thing that motivates us. But what we need to be ashamed of is the way we abuse it. —Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone gets mad sometimes. The important thing is what we do with the mad that we feel in life. – Mr. Rogers

The powerful force of anger arises in all of us – sometimes slowly after brewing over time, and sometimes in an unexpected instant. Regardless of its speed, it always has a directional component to its velocity. It begins within and travels outward towards a target – someone or something that we perceive threatens us or others in some way.

We all want everything to be right in our lives. And when someone or something threatens that rightness, we focus on what we believe to be the source of the problem. That focus often takes the form of anger.

Today we will grapple with what do with the powerful force of anger that we all possess, and in so doing we will scrutinize the rightness we seek from which anger springs as well as the target our anger longs to extinguish.

And we will view both the source and target through the lenses of telos, which in itself can mean target, but carries the weight of an ultimate aim or purpose.

Today’s story will telos how to deal with anger.

Source Scripture

Telos – Why You’re Angry: John 2:13-25

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