Is Life Like a Television Sitcom or a Christmas Present?

I heard this quote: Too bad life is not like a sitcom where we can happily wrap things up like a nice neat package, but sometimes life is complicated. I can vouch that life is complicated, and the more I get to hear about people's pasts the more complicated it gets. It's best to focus on the here and now and then think about the future. Not the past.

Watched an old episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond." I had seen it before a long time ago, but forgot the ending. The family attended a school open house where their son Michael read a book he wrote and it was called, "The Angry Family." I never laughed so hard in my life watching those parents squirm while their son read that book in front of other parents. The grandma in the story was especially angry. The boy said that the children's ears hurt from the yelling of the family. All the family had to come in for counseling at the Catholic school with the priest, and they were all blaming their anger issues on each other. Wow can I relate to getting blamed by others. I would say the top job dysfunction as an Administrative Assistant is getting blamed when others fail to make meetings. They brought some books home on parenting and it turned out the son was just writing a book about a cartoon he liked. I'm not much into sitcoms, but that one and an old episode of Home Improvement last night was way too real. Of course I "never" had any anger issues. My sister-in-law complained to me when her mother was angry she baked more cookies. Maybe that was my problem all the years of my life, I just made too many cookies. Most people don't understand anger, but anger is usually depression. I keep that in mind when I deal with others who have anger problems. I also try to find constructive ways to deal with my anger. Last year when I was angry that my daughter locked me out of my own house and had my only key, I ended up helping someone in the neighborhood walking who needed a ride. It definitely works for me to turn grief, depression, anger into a positive outcome rather than take it out on others or myself.

We can find constructive ways to deal with anger without taking it out on ourselves or others: (Ephesians 4:26 and Psalm 4:4: "In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry)