Be authentic with your feelings, and when anger arises, welcome it. Jesus never says you should not be angry, only that it is never justified! In other words, do not try to justify your anger using external causes (i.e. being mistreated, seeing others mistreated, etc.) Attempting to justify why you feel angry will only put you into an unhappy loop. Instead, practice pausing and reminding yourself that, as Lesson 5 says, “I am never upset for the reason I think”. Ask for Help of Him Who knows you truly, and give your anger to Him. Share your mind with Jesus and/or the Holy Spirit, and let your mind be healed for you.
“Anger could never occur unless you believed you were mistreated by something not yourself. If you were mistreated by something outside of you, that’s the condition for anger. And Jesus knows that there is nothing out there forcing you to be angry so that’s why he’s saying, ‘Just don’t justify it.’”
This recording of David Hoffmeister took place during the Silent Retreat on October 5th, 2016 at the Living Miracles Monastery in Duchesne, Utah.