Apostle Dr. Victor Adewusi - Control Your Anger

I give God all the glory for giving me the ability to finally break the jinx of sitting down to fulfill one of my long-term passions in life, which is to become an accomplished authour.

Although I've made several attempts to do what I am doing now, several factors have always hindered me from crossing the hurdle; but to God alone be all the glory and adoration.

From the very tender age of six, I began to vividly witness severe fighting and dangerous exchange of broken bottle blows, knives, and cudgels during fisticuffs. On most occasions, it was among a particular couple with whom we lived in the same house on Lagos Island in Nigeria.

The fighting usually lasted more than 2-3 hours, which almost always unavoidably attracted outsiders to the ugly scene. They would harm each other; and, in most instances, would be rushed to the hospital for treatment. Broken bottles would litter the entire apartment, while television sets, radios, and many other household decors would usually be destroyed in the crossfire. However, what was baffling to me, as young as I was, was that they usually put up the display and show of shame almost every month or at most twice, within every three months. They were adults in their late forties, but the wife was older than the husband; their tribes differ.

Since that period of my life, which spanned over six decades ago, I began to nurture the idea of writing a book on anger. I saw acrimony at its peak and anger in an awful form. Not only that, our neighbourhood contained different types of street urchins and dangerous elements, including boys and girls who indulged in the smoking of weed (cannabis) and other negatively intoxicating consumables. The resultant effects and endpoints were uncontrollable fights, quarrels, and the exchange of dangerous weapons, which usually occurred during the daytime.

Today, however, we are more exposed to greater end rage than ever before. Domestic violence, spousal abuse, gang wars, road rage and personal assault are growing to disturbing levels. Both in print and electronic, the media cannot even cover the reportage in full.

The Hebrew word for anger comes from the words face and nostrils. And whoever might have faced a truly angry person would understand why. It distorts our facial appearance whenever anger builds up, an outward manifestation of a very fiery volcano within us! Anger, if unchecked, can eat away at the heart and affect a persons character, no matter how highly placed the individual may be.

Yet, anger is not always destructive, as we shall soon discover from the pages of this book. Anger, in its healthy form, if properly controlled and expressed, can motivate us to work for a positive change. Anger, when checked, is like a refiners fire that tempers steel to make it stronger; however, if it remains unchecked, it could be as destructive as the wildfires that occasionally flare up in the hillside chaparral of southern California, USA.

I encourage you to read and go through each line of this book with undivided attention and read it as many times as possible. Please endeavour to apply the principles as often as practicably possible as you do so.

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