How to handle anger

[Pakesh]

Hello all,
I hope I can get some good advice here. For reasons I don’t want to get into necessarily, I am feeling great anger, hatred and vengeance due to political things in this country. Does anyone have strategies on how to not give into anger and turn it into prayer for the Lord?
Thanks,
Pakesh

 

[doanli]

Offer to work on a campaign for the upcoming November 2010 elections. Find a candidate who echoes your values and support him or her and get others to support them too.

Above all, pray, pray, and then pray some more.

I’ve been praying Hail Marys all day. I was/am hoping to get closer to the Blessed Mother anyway, so there are silver linings.

Keep the Faith—God IS and WILL ALWAYS be in control!

 

[aspirant]

I am feeling great anger, hatred and vengeance due to political things in this country.

“It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.”

Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!
I will praise the LORD as long as I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Put not your trust in princes,
in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD his God,
who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps faith forever;
who executes justice for the oppressed,
who gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets the prisoners free;
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind.
The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down;
the LORD loves the righteous.
The LORD watches over the sojourners;
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
The LORD will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the LORD!

 

[phoooiee]

I like to think of the anger as being a wall around myself that keeps me from God.

 

[Shaken]

Does anyone have strategies on how to not give into anger and turn it into prayer for the Lord?

Being angry can be a suffering. There is a daily prayer which offers up suffering for good intentions.

My God,
I offer You all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for the intentions for which He pleads and offers Himself in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in thanksgiving for Your favors, in reparation for my sins, and in humble supplication for my temporal and eternal welfare, for the needs of our holy Mother the Church, for the conversion of sinners, and for the relief of the poor souls in purgatory.
Amen.