Years ago, scientists identified two types of human behavior: Type A, in a hurry, impatient, often angry; and Type B, laidback, calm, slow to anger.  Physicians found Type A people much more likely to suffer heart attacks.  But only much later did researchers come up with a theory as to WHY this is so.  Dr. Redford Williams and his associates at DukeUniversity believe it is the hostility alone that damages the heart.  He writes: "It isn't the impatience, the ambition or the work drive, it's the ANGER!  It sends your blood pressure skyrocketing.  It provokes your body to create unhealthy chemicals.  For hostile people, anger is a poison."  In other words, the hostile heart kills.

And Jesus told a parable about a man whose hostile heart killed his relationship with his king.

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