My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 1:19-20

It feels so gratifying in the moment to give full vent to our anger, especially when we have clearly been wronged. We are predisposed to justify and to blame. It is against our nature to be humble and admit failure, even in part. So we get angry. Some of us give full vent while others hold it in and resentment builds and often turns to bitterness. Regardless of its form, anger rarely produces a healed relationship. Notice it’s exclusion from the “fruits of the Spirit” in Galatians 5:22-23. (Which, by the way, will produce a healed relationship!).

“One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not. The bigness or smallness of the thing, seen from the outside, is not what really matters.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Dear Lord, give me the capacity to handle my emotions in a healthy way when I have been wronged. Give me discernment and strength to honor you as I sort through truth and seek restoration with others. And, most of all, thank you that you first restored my broken relationship with you. Amen.