The Feast of Anger
Illustration★★★★“Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun... to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back. In many ways anger is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is your- self. The skeleton at the feast is you!”
Buechner, F., “Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC” New York: Harper & Row, 1973 (Adapted.
The point
An extended meditation on anger by Buechner: 'Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun... to smack your lips over grievances, to savor pain you're giving back...' But its drawback: 'what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.' A powerful warning against wrath's self-destruction.