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RESTORING CULTURES

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last tooth-some morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you give back—in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is what you are wolfing down is you. The skeleton at the feast is you.1

—FREDERICK BUECHNER

The insights of this quote become real when we notice that our best grudges follow us wherever we go. Grudges start when we didn’t get something we wanted (promotion, pay raise, or ...

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