"For Such a Time as This:" - division over Covid
Just after you called I was praying about the tension between my neighbor and me.
I was reading todays devotion from Our Daily Bread, Difficult People. " A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger". Proverbs 15:1 "While the hot tempered person stirs things up, the patient person calms them down." Proverbs 15:18
"When we get a critical comment from a family member, or a nasty reply from someone, we have a choice: to speak angry words that fuel the flames or gentle words that douse them. May God help us to speak words that turn away wrath and perhaps even help difficult people to change.
Loving God, give me the ability to respond to quarrelsome people with patient, gentle words."