Tuesday, October 27, 2015

CONFLICT MISMANAGEMENT...WHY CAN'T WE GET ALONG?

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(a continuation of Why Can't We Get along?)

Abraham Lincoln knew the power of words, his and the other individuals.  “When I’m getting ready to reason with a man,” he said, “I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I’m going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say."

 
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Too many never consider the other persons point of view… in which case guess whose point of view most people hold on to.

 

You’ve got a conflict in your life and you really do want to sweep it away?  Well…

 

Just remember,If the strands in the broom do not reconcile, you cannot very well sweep with it.”

 

Right now we have an excellent example of what can happen when conflict gets out of hand and no one is

willing to listen to anyone.

 

All we have to do is look north to Washington.

 

Good, intelligent men and women on both sides who speak from their mouths straight to their own ears without pausing to let any other ideas come filtering through.

 

Drawing a line in the sand as if they were God himself who was making the decisions.

 

And as I watch them, not as a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent, I am reminded that conflict is not wrong…just how we handle it too often is.

 

Without conflict there would be no New Testament…

 

No revelation…

 

Conflict arises from our unmet desires colliding with each other…

 

When we feel we cannot be satisfied until we get what we want…our desires turn into demands..and when that happens there is no chance for reconciliation

 

People stop talking to each other and rather talk at each other…

 

And like a chest cold, the longer a problem exists, the worse it gets.

 

And I am reminded of some more wise words in Proverbs “… He who answers before listening--that is his folly and his shame. (NIV) Pro. 18:13

 

Turning a disagreement into open conflict and finally into a feud that might outlast the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s, requires an angry dedication to hardheadness that makes no room for forgiveness...but all the room in the world for arrogance.

 

And the devil loves these kind of folk, those with loud voices and clinched fists…those who are not happy unless they are mad at someone.

 

He hates hands extended in prayers for peace and reconciliation and those who plant flowers instead of bombs.

 

And then there was the ultimate conflict with the ultimate end…the cross on a Golgotha hill.

 

“Pardon him” was the cry from some.

 

“Crucify him” was the cry from others.

 

And Pilate became a symbol of all the times men and women have washed their hands of some hateful conflicting affair.

 

Took the easy way out…except as history has come to show…it was not the easy or best way at all.

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