Anger is a human emotion that we all experience in our life.    We all have it – some good or bad, productive or violent.  Even our intense anger is not bad.  I have lived most of my life with anger.  Anger towards men and woman who did not treat me with respect and who took their anger out on me.  See there is a fine line between good anger and bad anger.  When we have gone through a trauma we get angry and we are hurt then we tend to take it out on others. Recently, I read a passage from Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel, whose book is about his thoughts and his psychology on being in a concentration camp.   The men in the concentration camp were finally liberated as the war had ended (Page 89).  As a diver who comes out of the deep sea, the men from the concentration camp must come out slowly or they will endanger themselves.  So the men who are finally liberated from mental pressure can suffer moral and spiritual health. They become instigators and justify their own behavior by their own terrible experiences. I’m not saying I am a bad person or have taken my own ager out on others to this extent. Sometimes we do lash out at others in our rage.  Road rage comes to mind here.  I always wonder what’s going on with someone when I experience that.  I say a prayer for them.  I say a prayer for myself that I survived the rage of another unhurt.  Because I am unhurt.  As the men in the concentration camp, I can be guided back out of my anger, slowly. I need to be “guided back to the common place of truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.” (Page 90) It has been a slow journey to heal myself and get over my anger towards others.  I have stumbled yet I have gotten back up.  My anger is now channeled positively through prayer or other actions.  There is a verse in the book of Malachi from the bible, where God is telling us to stay clear or we will see the rath of him.  This just means he is void of anything to do with destruction.  The irony is that the last verses are about the messenger who is coming to save us.  Doesn’t sound like we are being destroyed but saved from our own anger and destruction.  Listen to the Lord.  Let go of your anger.