Anger and Spirituality

 One of the things my Spirituality has taught me is simply not be angry.  It takes a long time to learn this.  Before I was a very angty person, but I heaped that anger on myself.  Inward anger is depression.  Outward manifestation of it is simply being manic.  I had to learn to control my anger, but after the experience all that anger was gone.  I can get frustrated and to some degree annoyed, but for me anger is useless.

It serves no purpose.  I’m an old hippie who learned about Peace and Love during the Vietnam era.  But as my life progressed I simply became a very angry person in comparison to now.  It was just under control.  But it reached a point where it all surfaced.  Had it not been for my experience I can’t guess at what would have been.  

I can tell others about what happened to me, but much of what I now know almost can’t be taught.  I only live as a representation of the experience.  It changed me forever.  I’m just different and my only explanation why is the experience.  But it took me back to my hippie days of Peace and Love.  

Love can be many things but love never does harm.  In fact maybe the Apostle Paul has the best description of love in I Corinthians 13.  Every preacher teaches that chapter on Valentine’s Day.  I once had it memorized, but applying it all was difficult at best.  But that is what my Spirituality is all about.  I don’t always have inner Peace.  Life can get in the way.

But inner Peace is what I seek in my Spirituality as much as outer Peace.  I hardly separate Peace from love.  They are both interwoven including love for the self.  My wife might say this one is pretty philosophical, but I’m trying to explain what can’t often be explained.  My pipe this morning is my Gettysburg “haunted” pipe with some Irish Blessing tobacco and my coffee this morning is from Trader Joe’s. Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave