While the hot-tempered person stirs things up, the patient person calms them down. When we get a critical comment from a colleague, a snide remark from a family member or a nasty reply from a stranger, we have a choice - to speak angry words that fuel the flames or gentle words that douse them.
May God help us to speak words that turn away wrath and perhaps even help difficult people to change.
Loving God, give me the ability to respond to quarrelsome people with patient, gentle words.
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