choice

Yesterday's post and the many that I have posted recently have been inspired by the book, "one thousand gifts."

The question I asked myself yesterday, "Where do I see Beauty?" prompted my posts on Facebook. 

For me, paying attention is the beginning of awareness. Awareness opens the door for change.

Today I began the chapter, "seeing through the glass."

"Really....do I really smother my own joy because I believe anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my life than Jesus way? Why else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment  will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose--and it is a choice--to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness?"

Certainly anger has it's place. It's how I let it grab hold of me, allow it to guide me instead of working through it in a healthy way...then moving to the place knowing that love achieves way more than the lasting effects of anger.

?? the lasting effects of love...or...destroying effects of anger ??