“A gentle response defuses anger,
but a sharp tongue kindles a temper-fire.”
Proverbs 15:1 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.
Funny how these things go — serendipity, I suppose, is what one might call it: when you encounter something that hits home immediately because of some connection to the person, place, or thing in question. In my case, it is this verse today. On a day when one has faced what seems like a horrendous communications nightmare, I receive this verse in the mail. Well, I don’t know how to meditate on it in a right and proper way other than to say that in principle this is all well and good, but in practice it doesn’t always work like this! Or so it seems. One can only do so much of being gentle in one’s response. The other alternative is to simply shut up.
