I have found that lately, being pregnant, I have no energy to get mad. So instead I cry. You should try it, when you are done you feel better because you cried out all the bad and have nothing to regret but spent tissues. Best of all, you don't even have to be pregnant to enjoy the benefits of this anger management gig.
Never been much of a crier, but this seems so simple and effective. Pray, cry, deep breath, praise the Lord and go. Feels like instead of blowing up it gives me the time to talk to the Lord about whatever is getting to me, I think the tears come from the fact that I don't know what to do to solve the current "problem". While putting it firmly in His hands, I cry. I cry for knowing that I don't know the right way to respond. And yet, when I pour it out to Him, I can get back up fully knowing that He is going to help me tackle whatever it is that I am facing.
It is a conscious choice for me to cry. It isn't my first response. Yelling is. I have to go be alone with the Lord for a minute (usually a bathroom break) and choose to cry and ask for help.
Maybe this is easy because I am pregnant, but pregnant or not it seems a better way to handle it than freaking out like a lunatic.
Psalm 28: 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Psalm 28:6,7,8 Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise Him. The Lord is their strength, and He is the saving strength of His anointed.
Psalm 107:28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distresses.
