Mennonite Church Peace Resources for Youth

Okay, this may sound strange, but my thought for week comes from Yoda. In the first episode of the Star Wars trilogy, Yoda makes a comment something like "Anger breeds fear, fear breads hate, and hate breeds suffering." I think that this is true, no matter if Yoda is fictional and that "pearl of wisdom" came from the mind a script. We have to learn to deal with our fear or in the end people will end up hurting because of it. Just take a look at the holocaust. Hitler was angry over the terms of the surrender and so he blamed the Jews, people began to fear the Jews and decided that the only way to make Germany "safe and pure" again was to eradicate the millions of Jews. All because a few people had anger management problems. (Please remember that I have a habit of oversimplifying and that the quote may not be exactly word for word.) So this week think about what might happen if you remain angry at someone. What will be the consequences?