{"id":242,"date":"2010-01-15T06:11:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/marthawilliamson\/2010\/01\/anger-and-the-eye-of-the-needl.html"},"modified":"2010-01-15T06:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:11:41","slug":"anger-and-the-eye-of-the-needl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/marthawilliamson\/2010\/01\/anger-and-the-eye-of-the-needl.html","title":{"rendered":"Anger and the Eye of the Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Williamson believes that anger serves no purpose if we let it take over our lives, but if we can turn that anger over to God and ask for the courage to change things, then that is what we call hope.<br \/>\n<em>For more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/m2m.org\/\">Mothers2Mothers organization<\/a>, please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/m2m.org\/\">M2M.org.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Williamson believes that anger serves no purpose if we let it take over our lives, but if we can turn that anger over to God and ask for the courage to change things, then that is what we call hope. 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