“15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
Have you ever been in that situation, with that one person that cannot seem to see eye-to-eye with you no matter what the discussion, so that there is always a tension and sooner or later, talking between you two always ends up into heated arguments? This possible situation might not even arise with that one distant, yet out spoken, person at school, work, or even church. It might be a really good friend, or a family member, where simple conversations just seem to turn into fights if the one wrong thing has been said. It is the point after things were said, that shouldn’t have been said at all, and, after one or both of you have left the room vowing not to speak to the other person ever again (or admittedly we think this secretly to ourselves), however, that we began to feel guilt, and when the question, “Why did I say that in the first place?” comes up, that really bothers us later. As human as we are, it is safe to bet that this instance happens to the best of us at some point. Continue reading
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