You may think you are someone who doesn't care about power and control, yet you roar when you feel helpless. Feeling helpless comes from a need to control what you see as right and what you see as wrong. Feeling helpless comes from a need to be heard and understood and to have your point of view, if not accepted, at least acknowledged.

Let it become important to you that you hear and understand and acknowledge others' points of view and inabilities, even others' inability to care as much as you do, even others' inability to be as competent as you, even others' inability to regard you as a person worthy of their attention.

No matter what incites your anger, no matter how outrageous the situation, no matter the incompetence of the other party, sooner or later you have yourself to deal with. That can be quite a project.

Sometimes in a battle, you have to withdraw. No matter how right you are, you have to withdraw from the fray and sit down a while with Me, for I am your Power, and I am your Help, and I am your Love restored.

You have better things to do than to carry anger around. Anger is not vital to you. It is not to be perpetuated. Nod at it, and remember, next to love, anger is insignificant.

What you are angry about is not so rampantly important. What is important is that you finish with it. Anger has its merit, and is not to be denied, but even the matador in the bull ring does not always face the bull. He walks away from it too. You do not have to stand in anger.

Anger does not support you very well. Your very anger is thwarting. The situation was difficult enough, and now you have added anger to it. There are people on earth who will never perform as you would like and deserve. It is not for you to carry their burden.

You cannot reform another. You cannot remove their ignorance. You can remove your own. The affronting situation does not have to change. The other party's perception does not have to change. Yours does. Anger thrives on a low branch, and you are one who rises higher.

Desire to see from a higher vantage. Desire to be wise rather than angry. Wisdom sits in a high tree. It is much more competent than anger.

Rather than anger yourself, soothe yourself. If you have a choice of giving yourself anger or giving yourself calm, which would you choose? Choose now.

There is a Higher Court for you to go to, and that is with Me. You cannot sit with Me and keep your anger. You cannot. No one can. Even when you direct your anger toward Me, you cannot keep it. Anger dissolves in the face of love, and you will find yourself wondering: What was the fuss all about anyway?