I wonder why we can't become more like little children.  Hey, why not wipe that scowl off your face that you’re making toward someone and you'll be amazed at the relief you get.  It reminds me of the Texas rancher once who had some boots made and they turned out to be just too tight.  Well the boot maker insisted on stretching them for him, "Not on your life," the rancher told him.  He said, "These boots are going to stay too tight." Sounds like our determination to hold our grudges, doesn't it.  Well anyway he says, "These boots are going to stay too tight and every morning when I get out of bed I got to corral some cows that busted out the night before and mend fences they tore down.  All day long I watch my ranch blow away in the dust.  After supper I listen to the radio, tell how high the price of feed is going to be and how low the price of beef is going to get.  And all the time my wife is nagging me, wanting us to move to town." Then he said, "Man, when I get ready for bed and pull off these tight boots that's the only pleasure I get." What I'm saying is pull off your boots off, pull that grudge out off your heart -- get some relief.  The best advice I ever heard goes like this, "Do not let the sun go down on your wrath." In other words, when you get angry at somebody, kill it as soon as you can.  That is killing the anger, not the person.  Do away with it, get rid of it, that anger can ruin you. 

When you let the sun set on anger, it becomes a grudge.  And when you go to bed with all that anger it settles in and begins to gnaw and irritate, It'll eat you up like cancer, and when you wake up in the morning you're going to be a frustrated bitter fellow.  You know something, we all are responsible for our emotions.  That's right, we are emotional by nature, but we are responsible for the emotions we keep and build within ourselves.  And anger if it is going to grow, grow into a grudge, it has to be nourished.  When something happens to you and you get angry you've got to water that anger to keep it alive.  And the longer you keep it alive the deeper a grudge it’s going to become.  But if you don't water it, it’s going to dry up like grass under a hot midsummer sun.  And if you hold a grudge it's no one's fault but your own, and the longer you hold it you're not going to stay that kindly, gentle, considerate fellow.  You'll become a mean cantankerous rascal you never wanted to be in the first place.  So stop nourishing your anger.  When you get mad, get over it before the sun goes down.  That's one thing that hurts you when you sleep on it.  I read somewhere that no man in the world ever attempted to wrong another without being injured in return -- some way, somehow, somewhere.  Someone said, "Doing an injury puts you below your enemy, avenging one makes you but even with him, but forgiving sets you above him." I like that.  You know I guess the question is, "What kind of a person do you want to be?"