Cut to the quick

We've all done it. It is rarely intentional but the results seem to be the same. No, I don't mean cut our nails painfully too close. It's those words that pierce our heart. Yeah they may be true or once were but the way that they penetrate our hearts can make our blood boil.

For example: " I would never let my kid do that" said to a caring parent.
With a grin we bury that feeling of unworthyness like a septic tank. Problem is septic tanks overflow. Then what? We walk through it and unknowingly track it into our homes. Can I tell ya "it stinks."

So the question: How do you deal with that blood boiling anger? Those words that cut you to the quick...

Anger Issues

So I'm waiting to pick my kids up from school and someone pulls up and parks in the handicap spot. They are obviously to me not handicap and it ticks me off! You know the kind... if my smoke bothers you too bad... If you don't like the way I drive stay off the sidewalk... Kids don't need to wear seatbelts...

I am so pathetically self-righteous sometimes I make myself sick. Am I alone?

If it looks like a duck...are you a duck?

I must become a student of my own behavior to find out what I truely believe.

This is from John Ortberg's book, Faith & Doubt. What grade would you give yourself at this? What grade would you give your sphere of the Church at doing this?