Most people read the command, “Do not murder,” and think, Well, good news, I’m doing pretty well there. I haven’t stabbed anybody, shot anybody, buried anybody in the back forty… so I guess I’m alright.

In the Sermon on the mount Jesus says, “Hold on. Let’s talk about what’s happening in your heart long before you ever actually take somebody out.”  And that’s the thing about anger. Most of the time it doesn’t start with something huge. It starts with something small. A delay. A disappointment. A wrong tone. A lemon pie where an apple pie ought to be. And suddenly what’s really in us starts leaking out.