Old Wounds

People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places, like secret road maps of their personal history, diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal – leaving nothing behind, but a scar… but some of them don’t.

Some wounds, we carry with us everywhere, and though the cut is long gone… the pain still lingers.

So... what’s worse: new wounds, which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should have healed years ago and never did?

Maybe our old wounds teach us something: they remind us where we’ve been and what we’ve overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future… that’s what we like to think. But that’s not the way it is, is it? Something we just have to learn over and over and over again.

In life, we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones: gluttony, pride, lust.

But the sin you don’t hear much about is anger… maybe its because we think anger is not that dangerous, that we can control it. My point is, maybe we don’t give anger enough credit… maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to destructive behavior – it did make the top seven.

So, what makes anger different from the six other deadly sins?

Its pretty simple really, you get into a sin like envy or pride – and you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you’ll only hurt yourself and probably one or two others. But anger, anger is the worst… the “mother” of all sins. Not only can anger drive you over the edge, when it does – you can take an awful lot of people with you.