When you’re feeling angry

[DeniseNY]

A prayer for when you are feeling angry --Aleteia

This prayer was composed by St. Jerome, who had his own struggles with anger.

aleteia.org

 

[Nelka]

Prayer doesn’t help me it just makes me feel worse.

 

[dallas_r]

Prayer doesn’t help me it just makes me feel worse.

Why is that my friend?

 

[Nelka]

Not only I the answer always no but I feel like I’m being punished for asking.

 

[phil19034]

Not only I the answer always no but I feel like I’m being punished for asking.

Well, what are you asking for?

I read my daughter a great book reciently, I suggest we all read it. It’s called “The Berenstein Bears: Say Their Prayers”.

But seriously, there is a part in that book where Brother Bear sees his cousin praying before pitching during a baseball game, and then strikes out the side. So Brother later prays for a game winning hit and then strikes out.

He’s said and says something to his cousin, who simply says: “oh, I just pray that I will not be scared”. He didn’t ask for a strikeout. Later at bedtime, Sister is still teasing Brother about the strikeout and he gets mad. So he prays for the anger to go away, and it does.

A lot of times we don’t know how to pray. I found that simply children’s book to be very enlightening.

God Bless