The Angry Man

[352 words] “Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare” (Proverbs 22:24-25, ESV). When I was growing up, I had a friend with whom me and a couple of other hung around. He was a good fellow, but I never understood why he got boiling angry so often. I remember on one occasion when his anger arose as a volcano; with force, he got out of the car, slammed the door, and walked home. Pretty tame, really. Then, it got worse, much worse. He married, but his wife left him because of his anger. Many years later, unable (I suppose) to control his anger, in a domestic dispute, the law enforcement came to quiet down the situation, but he had a gun in his hand. He threatened them, so they removed the…