Kiss Anger Bye-Bye

Proverbs 19:11 "The discretion of a man deffereth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression"

Okay, so this is kinda an anger management verse, but kinda not.  Loosely translated in the ALAV, Solomon is saying, Hey dude, a little tip...when you get angry or somthin' and you have a chance to give 'pay back', run it through your brain first to reason out all the consequences of your actions.  So we've all see it happen with other people, and if we're honest with ourselves we're also guilty of this, but something will happen that really ticks us off...sometimes rightfully so, sometimes not...and we just totally blow up about it and go all Kung-Fu Panda on the person!  Now what good does that do, besides showing off your awesome anger skills?  None.  It simply makes us look immature and partially ruins our relationship with that person.  So taking from what Solomon said, we need to think over the consequences of our actions to see if it really is going to be worth it.  Most times it's not.  To be HONEST, this is something that I still work on:/  But I've found that if, when something ticks you off, you take a BIG deep breath and yell at the person mentally without looking at them, then look back at them it's surprising how most of the anger dissipates!!:D  Is it worth ranting and raving at someone for ripping a nice big hole in a pair of your nicest jeans?  Probably not!  Also if the issue/problem isn't a big deal, it is GLORY to just let it go.  If you do that then it makes you look like the bigger person.  I'm not saying that you WANT to try to make the other person feel guilty, but if you do something to someone else on purpose or accidentally that could make them angry, how does it feel when that person doesn't give a reaction, and they simply calmly tell you "it's okay."  You feel MUCh worse that if they had totally blown up at you.  I'm not saying we WANT to make others feel bad, but I AM saying that sometimes/most of the time it's A LOT better just to 'Let it Go'