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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
An Internet entrepreneur discovered that revenge can be popular. Mat Carpenter started a website where patrons can order an envelope with a folded up piece of paper filled with glitter and send it to people you don’t like. He said the concept is simple. Decide whose day you want to ruin and then enter…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 45 views
In the 1960’s, Simon and Garfunkel was one of the top recording artists. Then right at the top of their popularity they split up, going their separate musical ways. Now 45 years later we discover that Art Garfunkel has never forgiven Paul Simon for the breakup. Attributing the breakup to Simon’s unwillingness…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 27 views
The HuffingtonPost.com quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson on the uselessness of anger. “For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” Of course that is only the beginning of what you lose when you hold on to your anger, but it is a good reminder. --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell The Week,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 52 views
In the novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, the main character is treated horribly as a young boy by the Earnshaw family. As he grows older, he plots revenge on those who treated him cruelly and their children--to the point where his vengeance consumes his every thought and action. Isabella, one of the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 94 views
Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian Jew spent four-and-a-half years in various Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Wiesenthal, one of the few to survive the atrocities of the Holocaust, recounts a harrowing story in his memoir, The Sunflower. While working to clear rubbish from a make-shift hospital, a nurse…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
ANGER In Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Kerry Patterson writes, “No matter how comfortable it might make you feel saying it—others don’t make you mad. You make you mad. You and only you create your emotions.“ - Crucial Conversations, Kindle Loc. 1409-11 Illustration by…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A new study has found that people are often angry with God when they face difficult circumstances in life. The study also found that being angry with God was often associated with poor mental health. The two year study focused on university students and found that two out of every three respondents reported…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Julie Exline of Case Western University focused her ten-year study on anger towards God. Her current findings, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, indicates that up to two thirds of people are angry at God for some situation in their lives. Lee Dye writes…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
In Fire Storm, Ron Susek writes, “It’s all too easy to assume that someone who intensely disagrees with you is either dead wrong at best, or demon possessed at worst. Be sure that the person is clearly sinning before God and not merely engaging in valid disagreement. What’s the difference? Valid disagreement…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In Thriving through Ministry Conflict by Understanding Your RED and Blue Zones the authors write, “In conflict, the vast majority of the time, the problem is more in us than it is in the person with whom we are in conflict. So resolution does not come from winning or changing the behavior of the other…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
ANGER Anger can kill. It may not be as quick as an automatic weapon, but it is just as deadly. In the introduction to their book Anger Kills, Williams & Williams say: "getting angry is like taking a small dose of some slow-acting poison—arsenic, for example—every day of your life. (p. vii ) "Be angry,…
Bill Hamilton • Illustration • • 12 views
Since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Romans 12:1 Resentment is the cocaine of the emotions. It causes our blood to pump and our energy level to rise. But, also like cocaine, it demands increasingly large and more frequent dosages. There is a…