When we feel angry about an injustice, whether in the world or in our own life, we may try to combat it—or we might shut down, feeling helpless. At best, anger can motivate us to do something productive—to advocate for change or offer protection to someone vulnerable. But is anger ever really the best way to respond? 

Evil, including injustice, needs to be faced—and overturned. But as empowering as anger may feel, it is not really the power that it seems to be. The false feeling of power we get from indulging anger doesn’t actually help things—and giving in to anger often just makes us feel worse. 

But there is another option: prayer, which turns us instead to the transformative might of divine Love. This heals both divisions and injustice—and exposes the fact that evil in any form is never a reality or a power.