Anger Management // One Year Ends, Another Begins
, Part 1

<p class="p1">Christmas is just around the corner, can you believe it? But the sad reality is that domestic violence will again spike sharply over the Christmas period. Can you believe that? Well, too often, anger spills over during the holidays, so I thought that this week, we’d share in a timely word on anger management.</p> <p> </p> <h4 class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #ff9900;">The Root Produces the Fruit</span></h4> <p class="p2">I don’t know if you’ve noticed but when a seed falls to the ground and dies, ultimately it sprouts and takes root.</p> <p class="p2">And if it was the seed of a plum tree – we can be pretty certain that the thing that’s growing there is going to one day produce – not apricots, not apples, not pears…..we all know, it’s going to produce plums.</p> <p class="p2">Because it’s a plum tree that’s taken root. <span class="s1"><strong><em>In fact, the root produces the fruit.</em></strong></span></p> <p class="p2">It’s just one of those basic facts of life that actually we don’t have to think about. The root determines the fruit.</p> <p class="p2">And it’s a bit like that in our hearts. IF our hearts take root in goodness then we’ll produce good fruit. In bad things and we’ll produce bad fruit.</p> <p class="p2">In sweet things and we’ll produce sweet fruit. In bitter things – and we’ll produce bitter things.</p> <p class="p2">This is not rocket science – right?</p> <p class="p2">This week on the program….Want to take a look at the phenomenon of anger in our society and in our lives.</p> <p class="p2">Anger is a real phenomenon in the hearts of so many people. Pressure building up in life – people explode.</p> <p class="p2">Like a pressure cooker – vent the steam otherwise it blows up. It's the same with people – so many people venting their anger – epidemic proportions.</p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li2">Road rage</li> <li class="li2">Supermarket rage</li> <li class="li2">Call centre rage</li> </ul> <p class="p2">In fact, this weeks program is prompted by a real-life experience.