anger and lies

In Ephesians 4:26-27 Jesus teaches about anger and being angry.He says be angry but do not sin,do not let the sun set on your anger and do not leave room for the devil. In my Dad's case, a 6yr. old child was upset that she didn't receive a gift that he promised her. She became angry and her anger turned into a lie which led to more lies. These lies got out of control and spread into the hands of her parents, her family, police officers, social services, lawyers, judges, jury, and then led to false accusations, arrest, conviction, and imprisonment.The tragedy was there no thorough investigation made by any of the adults into these accusations.We believe that this little girl tried to recant her story(Like the story of the girl crying wolf) because she put a letter in my parents' mailbox which read,"I'm sorry I got you in trouble with the police.Do what they tell you to do"Another tragedy, they didn't even believe her when she tried to dispel the lie she told and tell them the truth. In my early years as a young ,inexperienced teacher,I had personally seen a child make a false accusation against a teacher and believed that child with out thoroughly checking out all the facts. Later that child recanted his story and the truth came out. The truth is some children do lie and they are good at it because they don't know the consequences of their lying and what damage it can do.They lie because they are angry and want to get back at that person, to get them in trouble or they lie because they don't want to get themselves in trouble.They don't realize how destructive and dangerous lies and false accusations are.God Bless Lin