Control Anger with Love

Are you feeling angry? You are angry with your spouse. Why can’t he or she do what I ask? How about your boss? He does not appreciate my hard work. The neighbor can be the worst. Why doesn’t he do something about that messy yard of his? Does this sound familiar to you?

Mary Baker Eddy in her book Science and Health states, “It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony”. (390:7-9) When we are angry then we are not filling our thoughts full of God but full of hate. Is the problem out there or is it within us?

What is the right understanding of God? In Christian Science God is love and nothing else. Man is God’s reflection so man can only be the reflection of love. Those people whom you are angry with are all the children of God. Can we be angry at God’s creation?

The Bible tells us, “…choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Josh 24:15) This house that is referred to is our consciousness and we have the right to choose the consciousness of love instead of the consciousness of hate.

Fill your thought full of love. Spend your time seeing the good that is going on and anger will cease to control your thought. You will begin to feel at peace and see the love of God all around you.