Anger

Although we may not give full vent to our anger in a public way, the hard truth is that a rage monster lives inside each of us and raises its head in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. The tendency is to minimize it, excuse it, rationalize it, even justify it, but try as we might, we know that we have an ugly problem, and we need to face it and deal with it.

While we may be skilled at keeping our struggles from other people, there isn’t anything we are keeping from God—and the lies that we conceive to protect our secrets only push us further from the only one who can heal us.

People often deal with pain in ways that prolong the pain and cause more pain in their relationships, but there is also a healthy way to deal with it.