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Anger in the Morning

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 23, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 25.

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Anger in the Morning

“If I get angry in the morning, it spoils my work all day.”
That is an experience which many of us can recognize with lament for days which did not bring their full harvest of accomplishment. For each day is a new beginning endowed with possibilities of work and pleasure, but strictly limited in its allowance of energy—and especially of that highest type of nervous energy which enables us to bring out the best that is in us. Anger is an irritant, a fever. If we begin the day with it, the fine flower of our vital strength is exhausted in the effort to get back to serenity, and we work all day with the poorer forces of our mind and spirit.
If there were no other argument for peaceful home morning hours, this of itself would be worth considering. If the son or husband robs the housewife of her serenity of soul by trying words before he leaves for his work, he has robbed his home of energy all day. If children go scolded and angry to school, they are in no mood to make the best of their opportunities. The world wants the best work, and will reward nothing less than that. Our best work is none too good for the world’s needs and for our own conscience. Let us not provoke one another to anger in the hour of beginnings, lest we make ourselves responsible for failure. And let us not overdo to-day, lest we be tempted to visit our own weariness on others to-morrow, so hindering their work.—The Congregationalist.