Dear Lord; Good morning Father.\u00a0 Well Lord, I didn\u2019t exactly start the day on a stellar note.\u00a0 As You well know, Shannon and I very seldom have any significant arguments.\u00a0 We\u2019re very much on-keel with each other, and any little disagreements we do have now and again are usually quickly and calmly worked out.<\/p>\n
That wasn\u2019t the case today however.<\/p>\n
A simple misreading of a reaction to something I said led to tempers flaring on both sides, and a twenty minute excited exchange\u2026 Over basically nothing.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord\u2019s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. \u2013 2 Timothy 2:23-24<\/strong><\/p>\n Ouch!\u00a0 Yep, that pretty much describes our fight\u2026 foolish and stupid.\u00a0 I stand convicted Lord, and am deeply ashamed.\u00a0 Instead of listening for Your Guidance in that moment, I allowed my temper to shut myself off from You and caused unnecessary pain to someone I love deeply.<\/p>\n Heavenly Father, please help me focus my heart and mind on Your Voice in times of stress.\u00a0 Help me not be quick to anger, and instead bring a level head and calm influence to situations that arise.<\/p>\n My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man\u2019s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. \u2013 James 1:19-20<\/strong><\/p>\n Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Good morning Father.\u00a0 Well Lord, I didn\u2019t exactly start the day on a stellar note.\u00a0 As You well know, Shannon and I very seldom have any significant arguments.\u00a0 We\u2019re very much on-keel with each other, and any little disagreements we do have now and again are usually quickly and calmly worked out. That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[762,288,365,451,749,759,747,752,335,500,42,754,140,51,757,763,760,133,141,750,753,19,756,748,751,575,627,227,746,755,476,362,758,761,71,157],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-anger","tag-argument","tag-ashamed","tag-calm","tag-calmly","tag-convicted","tag-disagreement","tag-exchange","tag-excited","tag-fight","tag-focus","tag-foolish","tag-heart","tag-influence","tag-kind","tag-level","tag-listening","tag-love","tag-mind","tag-misreading","tag-nothing","tag-pain","tag-quarrels","tag-quickly","tag-reaction","tag-resentful","tag-servant","tag-shannon","tag-stellar","tag-stupid","tag-teach","tag-temper","tag-timothy","tag-unnecessary","tag-voice","tag-wife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}