For Lack Of Wood The Fire Goes Out

For lack of wood the fire goes out. And where there is no whisper, contention quiets down. Proverbs 26:20

With two teenage boys in the house it sometimes feels like a war zone.raging emotions, veins flowing with hurts, anger and disappointment are often the picture I get to look at. This Proverbs tells me it is not my business to stir up, provoke a child.

My ex-wife never understood this. Her Jamaican blood didn't flow that way. She once told my 12 year old that was adopted, " We don't want you anymore. You're own birth mother didn't want you?" Can you imagine the impact of those cutting words on his little heart.

Proverbs 26:20 says to not even whisper. To be quiet is more effective tan words that hurt and cut. So often times I bite my tongue. My boys consider me weak or a wimp but that's O.K. They will have a brain someday. Until they do I am going to do it God's way.

Say not a word, be not disturbed,
I am the God of all creation.

Say not a word, be not disturbed
Just come to me in adoration.

Hold out your and, your just a man,
I am the God of all creation.

I know the end, do not contend,
I am the God of all the nations.

Be still,
Oh be still.

Brad McGill
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