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Romans 12:18
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you,
live at peace with everyone.
Indeed,
as Proverbs puts it, “Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full
of feasting with strife.” Prov. 17:1
But to accomplish this, we need to
remember and practice yet another scripture:
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians:13-4-7)
You know, if we would heed only half of all the advice the Bible offers us on
this subject, we would have lives filled with twice as much peace and love and understanding.
A story to make the point: Once, in order
to better understand all the problems the people outside the monastery seemed
to be constantly having with each other, two monks decided that they should have a
quarrel like ordinary men.
Since
they had never had one before, they were not quite sure how to begin.
So one of the brothers-in-Christ looked
around, found a brick, and placed it squarely between them.
“We
are now going to do some role playing. I will say, ‘This brick is mine,’” he
instructed,
“Then you say, ‘No, it is mine!’ This seems to be the
sort of thing that leads to a quarrel in
what folk call the real world.. Are
you ready?”
“I am ready,” said the other monk.
Taking a deep breath, the first monk
began, “This brick is mine.”
“I beg your pardon,” his brother-in-Christ
said, “but I do believe that it is mine.”
“No, it is not; it is mine,” the first
monk repeated.
The second monk paused and replied, “Well,
if it’s yours, then take it.”
Then smiled and walked away.
Thus the two monks failed in their effort
to generate conflict because they just couldn’t get their heart in it. Even though
they were only play acting, the idiocy of the selfishness of it all was just
more than they could endure.
Why they
failed is really quite obvious.
Neither had a closed mind or an
open, argumentative mouth.
Neither was filled with more
anger than common sense.
Neither was wearing a dunce cap
made out of false pride.
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