Angry, Angry Birds

Angry Birds may have turned into an obsession or addiction, but it did teach me a few things about anger.

If you’ve ever played the game, you know there are different types of angry birds.

•  A little red one that does damage on its own.
• A little blue one that will morph into 3 blue ones for extra power.
• A white egg-shaped one that will spin off into another direction when tapped.
• A yellow triangle-shaped bird that will speed in for the kill at the right moment.
• A black one that will hit the target, then in a few seconds explode doing even more damage.

I got to thinking that they all represent different ways we can exhibit anger or maybe different styles of anger.

• Some people are like the red bird, they just spout off, and that‘s that, very direct.
• Others are like the blue bird, they clone themselves, they bring several with them to spout off.
• Then there are the people who are like the white bird, they position themselves to be deadly by hitting a target, but also aim for other strategic spots- sometimes they miss their mark and just spin out of control.
• The yellow bird typeS start out to spout off and along the way gets more steamed up and hits hard at their target.
• Then there’s the people who are like the deadly black bird, they hit their target then just explode killing or maiming the target and hurting a lot of other people in the process.  They really set off a fire storm in their wake.

Hmm, wonder which one I am when I get angry.  Can you pick out your style?  Or maybe we use different approaches at different times.

All I know is that each type of angry bird leaves a path of destruction, some worse than others.   And that’s what anger does.   It tears down and destroys.  Good word to live by:  be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.  James 1:19

Angry Birds, thanks for the lesson in anger and I wonder if you could find a gentler, kinder way to accomplish your goal.