Wednesday... I do understand but it is tiring.

Wednesday... I do understand but it is tiring. 

But fighting it seams is the way we elect a new President but it is tiring. I mean, someone tried to kill one of the candidates. After being in church Saturday and very much inspired we came out of church finding out that ex-President Trump had been shot. And I'm not minimizing how very wrong that was but that was taking it way too far. And for sure it need not be the way we individually live in our homes. 

Proverbs 17:1 (NIV) says, "Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house filled with strife." The Amplified Bible says, "Better a dry morsel [of food served] with quietness and peace than a house full of feasting [served] with strife and contention." But so many homes are in total war. And it need not be that way.

Verse 9 says, "Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends." And then verse 13, "If you pay good with evil, evil will never leave your house."

My dad told the story of an old man who everyday would go down in his cellar where he had a basket of apples and he would look through the apples and find the rotten ones and put them in bowl and bring them up to the kitchen. He then would take a knife and cut out the rotten part of the apple and he threw that away and then they would eat the rest of the apple. And then my dad would say that that older couple ate rotten apples all winter but if he would have thrown the whole rotten apple away they would have eaten good apples all winter. That story has always had an impact on me.

Somehow, we need to get rid of all the rotten apples in our homes, don't we? And I'm not talking about people. 

Verse 13 in the Amplified says, "Whoever returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house."

Psalm 109:4-5 (NLT) says, "I love them, but they try to destroy me with accusations even if I am praying for them! They repay evil for good and hatred for my love." 

And then Proverbs 17:14 says, "Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out."

I had a pastor that I worked for say what to do in a conflict. He said to spread your legs apart, lean back on your heels, lower your shoulders, move your head back, take a deep breath and lower your voice. If you notice, most of the time we lean forward and raise our voice. But doing the other way will calm us down and it seems that we will get control of our motions and we will lean out of the fight. So lets do all we can to "stop a dispute before it breaks out."

Again verse 9, "Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends."

I'm not sure we can elect presidents that way but it sure does make a difference in our homes and with other people, won't it? And that is great! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning