What's Your Anger Style?
Theme of the Week: Why Do We Lose It?
Sunday, August 6, 2006
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Who Said It…Norman Wright
Norman Wright is an avid fisherman. He's also a marriage, family, and child therapist, now on staff at Rolling Hills Covenant Church in California. More than 30 years of private practice has been coupled with directing departments of counseling at Biola University and of Christian education at Talbot School of Theology. Here he fleshes out three styles of anger identified by Patrick Morley in The Man in the Mirror. What He Said…What's Your Anger Style?
Freddie Flash has a short fuse. At the slightest provocation, he blows minor irritations way out of proportion. But his anger subsides just as quickly. He thinks the harm he does is inconsequential. It hasn't dawned on him that it's not the single occurrence but the frequency that has branded him as someone to avoid.
Cary Control doesn't become angry every day. But, boy-oh-boy, when Cary's long fuse finally burns down, the dynamite explodes! He loses control and strikes out with a verbal tirade that makes his wife's knees wobble and his children flinch in terror. His anger problem is an intensity problem.
Gary Grudge never has an outburst of anger. Instead, Gary seethes with anger at the man he believes has crossed him. Gary often wakes in the middle of the night and plots how to discredit his nemesis. He feeds his ulcer the right foods, but his high blood pressure and colitis require a doctor's prescription. His anger problem is a problem of duration.
Adapted from That's a Keeper (Bethany, 2002) by permission.
Copyright © 2006 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
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Lord, when my anger is out of control, Your Spirit isn't in charge. I ask for Your help in governing my temper.
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