Getting Anger Under Control by Neil T. Anderson; Rich Miller

Getting Anger Under Control by Neil T. Anderson; Rich Miller

Author:Neil T. Anderson; Rich Miller
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Faith, Anger Management, Religious Aspects, Family & Relationships, Christian Life, General, Religion, Inspirational, Self-Help, Anger, Personal Growth, Christianity, Christian Theology, Self-Esteem
ISBN: 9780736903493
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2002-01-14T22:00:00+00:00


PART THREE How God’s Power Works in You

CHAPTER 10

It’s a Mad, Mad World

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

—WILL DURANT

Sometimes the best way to see something is to be away from it for a while. I (Rich) was driving down Smoky Park Highway near our new home outside of Asheville, North Carolina, and I noticed something peculiar. The other cars were traveling at or even under the speed limit! I couldn’t believe it. I was actually passing more cars than were passing me!

I shook my head as I recalled numerous death-defying trips on the interstates around my former home in Atlanta, Georgia. Countless times I had been cut off, tailgated, and honked at. Other drivers had used gestures and uttered words I have not been able to find in my Bible. All too frequently, I had retaliated by imagining my dashboard controls were actually able to launch heat-seeking missiles into the tailpipes of offending vehicles.

Then I pulled into the parking lot at Asheville Regional Airport and noticed something else. No crowd, no frenzy, no stress, no angry people. How strange! I breathed a sigh of relief and walked into the main concourse. There was a small restaurant where a calm, kindly man dished me up a plate of eggs, bacon, and grits. I sat down, relaxed, and enjoyed my meal. A few other people trickled in and read the newspaper or engaged in quiet conversation. Amazing, I thought. Do people still live this way?

Wandering down to my gate, I saw people waiting peacefully for the boarding call. Then she arrived! Wearing a power business suit neatly pressed, she frantically brushed her colored blond hair from her eyes and yanked out her cell phone from her purse. She then desperately tried to reach someone who could check to see whether she had locked her car doors. A major crisis?

She was a "stress carrier.” Activated by a perpetual selfperceived state of emergency, stress carriers can change the climate of a room or a highway almost instantly. This women would have fit in perfectly at Atlanta’s Hartsfield International (where we were headed), but she seemed grossly out of place at Asheville Regional.

Settling into my seat on the plane, I relaxed even more as I gazed out my window at the Appalachian Mountains. The morning mist was still in the valleys, and the leaves were starting to change color. It was peaceful, even serene. I didn’t even mind the little bag of "Granola Berry Crunch” thrust my way (instead of the pretzels I was hoping for).

I’m Not Keeping Up!

Absentmindedly I pulled out my copy of ASA Connections (the airline’s in-flight magazine). On the front of the inside cover Jack Welch was grinning at me aggressively from a photo of the cover of the book Jack Welch and the GE Way. The ad yelled at me, "PROBLEM. So many great business books. So little time. 1,200 important books like this one come out every year. Of course, you know that, as an



Download



Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.