Dedicated to the Beetle

Day 125: Anger: Three Thoughts Before You Explode

I was talking to a friend today who explained to me how he had gained a feeling of caring for everyone and everything around him over the course of his second semester at college. He told me that yesterday, there was a beetle crawling on the floor of his dorm room. Instead of crushing it in a tissue like he usually would have, he decided to scoop it up in a piece of paper and take it someone else.

Now I doubt that he went through the suggested thoughts before reacting, but still his display of caring towards the insect was very sweet.

It is suggested that we think of the following 3 things before we become explosively angry:
1) You are a creature, not the Creator
2) You are flesh and blood and will perish
3) God will show you mercy only if you show mercy