Sep

17

Proverbs: Anger, continued

Filed Under Christian Living, Poetry, Proverbs 

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,

and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

~Proverbs 16:32

A little extra something re: the 9/2 sermon on anger in Proverbs. This morning Andrapoison-tree.jpg Mooney, retired English teacher, reminded me of William Blake’s 1794 poem “A Poison Tree” concerning unresolved anger:

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water’d it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with my smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veil’d the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.

Signature Phillip

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