'Unavailing sorrow and regret
"Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry" Ephesians 4:26
So uncertain is life, and so manifold are the vicissitudes of human experience, that any departing may be forever. We are never sure of an opportunity to unsay the angry word, or draw out the thorn we left rankling in another's heart.
The kindness which we felt prompted to do today, but neglected or deferred — we may never be able to perform.
The only way, therefore, to save ourselves from unavailing sorrow and regret , is to let love always rule in our hearts and control our speech. If we should in a thoughtless moment speak unadvisedly, giving pain to another heart — let reparation be made upon the spot.
The sun should never go down upon our anger. We should never leave anything overnight, which we would not be willing to leave finally and forever just in that shape, and which we would blush to meet again in the great disclosure.