Monday, March 20, 2000
Monday, March 20, 2000
Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.
It is ok to express our anger, but we are not to hurt someone or sin.
(Ephesians
4:26
NRSV)
Paul Harvey tells about a robber in Oceanside, California wearing a motorcycle helmet and
carrying a gun who strode into a branch bank. He selected a teller who appeared fiftyish, soft,
kindly, an easy mark. He handed her a note demanding money or her life. The woman reached for
the cash drawer. Then she looked again at the note and her eyes flashed, her lips clenched. She
pulled the entire cash drawer out, but instead of giving him money, she clobbered the robber over
the head with the drawer. And again and again. She was scolding him. Money was flying
everywhere and she was beating him and shouting shame on him and bouncing blows off his
helmet--until the young man turned and ran. Police caught him in nearby shrubbery. Then they
asked the woman teller how come she was about to give him money at gunpoint and then,
suddenly, instead, became enraged? She said, "In his note there was a very naughty word."
Dear Jesus, take away the anger and fill me with a peaceful spirit. Amen.
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