Day Twenty-Six of "31 Days of Love": Restraining My Anger and Making Peace with My Roommate

"In your anger, do not sin."

So I often change my roommate's Facebook status to really weird, slightly gross, totally random things. I try to keep the humor somewhat tasteful and believable and only slightly obnoxious. For instance, I once updated his status saying something about how he discovered a mole on the bottom-end of his left butt cheek and how he nicknamed it Josh.

It's kind of like a little "war" we have going where we mess with each other. It's all in good fun.

This morning I took a shower and left my Facebook up. Eric jumped at the opportunity to change my status and made it "Satan is my best friend". (This really really upset me x 13293204)

When I saw it I got pretty upset. I confronted him about it immediately and said he had crossed the line.

He responded by exploding about how I cross the line even more every time I update his status and how annoying and unnecessary I was for doing it. He was pretty red-faced and serious at this point and it was clear he had kind of snapped.

This is basically what he looked like:













I really wanted to explode back and tell him off for how much worse this was, but I stopped and made one of those closed-eyed, teeth-clenching faces and calmed myself down.

Instead of acting out in my flesh, I let the spirit guide me to humility and love and walked over and offered my hand to Eric.

I told him I was sorry about all the status updates and that I didn't know it bothered him that much. He responded well and we made up and I told him that I wouldn't do it again.

So my act of love today was refraining from showing my anger and forgiving Eric for what he did, and then also apologizing for what I'd done.

"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God"
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Challenge: Hold back your anger and offer peace, forgiveness, love, and reconciliation instead. Do this whenever and wherever the opportunity comes, be it on the freeway or with your family! (Two instances where people tend to let their anger loose haha)