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I challenge each of you to go an entire day without making a negative
remark about someone else.
For therein lies another of the
causes of conflict… all the mean, thoughtless gossip-comments good people
spread around all the time…comments that get repeated and
repeated and repeated until they make their way back to the person that has
been commented about.
Two friends were walking through the
desert. During some point of the
journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the
face.
The one who got slapped
was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN
THE FACE. "
They kept on walking until they found an
oasis, where they decided to take a bath.
The one who had been slapped got stuck in
the mire and started sinking, but the
friend pulled him out and saved him.
After he had recovered, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE . "
The friend who had slapped and then saved
his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you
write on a stone, why?"
The other friend replied, "When someone hurts
us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can blow it away.
But, when someone does something good for
us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it. "
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND
TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.
Now, I’m going to put before you a few
personal
questions
and I hope you are able and willing to
honestly
answer them to yourself.
Are you a peacemaker or are you a
warrior?
Do you
turn proverbial swords into plows or plows into swords?
Are
you a master at making cutting remarks?
Just remember, “A
word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver. ” (Proverbs.
25:11)
Do you harbor grudges as if they were
long lost friends?
Do
you accuse everyone else of having a bad temper when in
reality it is you whose temper IS CONSTANTLY FLARING out of control?
Are you a smoldering
coal…always on the edge of burning anyone who comes in contact with you?
Yes…it is true that…"Coping with
difficult people is always a problem.
Especially if the difficult person happens to be yourself. "
-John Maxwell-
What is the biggest
problem with conflict? It’s like a magnet… For many people once
it gets hold of them they can’t let it go.
Such as the husband who
said that after 50 years of marriage, he and his wife have had only one fight.
When asked the secret to their success he replied, “Our first and
only fight started on our
honeymoon and I’m still waiting for it to end!”
“Life is relationships,
the rest is in the details. ” (Gary Smalley)
And when we keep driving nails into a
relationship, we are
trying to build a good life on a ragged wound… and it just isn’t going to
happen.
Want to know how to make any conflict
worse? Use the words “never”
and “always. ”
You “never”
and name the fault. Or…you “always”
and name the fault.
(to be continued next thursday)
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