If you have a tough issue to work out with your spouse, partner, boss or co-worker, do you work it out with love and peace in your heart?
Too often, people get angry, even raging mad, when having to wrestle with tough issues that need resolution. This is not necessary.
Solving tough issues may require intense examination, vigorous discussion, pointed debate, and stark openness and honesty, but these can all be accomplished without heated anger, verbal violence and hurt feelings gaining the upper hand.
Tough issues need answers. But answers are best found by those who demonstrate mental dominion and balanced perspective that allows the voice of truth to speak through and be heard.When anger, hatred, resentment, ill-will, and animosity enter thought, they cloud perspective, warp judgment, twist the facts, distort the view, and lead to statements, comments, thoughts and feelings that are destructive and hurtful. They make events worse.
The wise way is to shut down personal sense with its heated emotions, and turn on to spiritual sense so that the voice of Truth and Love can shine through the debate and discussion, and have an uplifting, healing and redeeming effect.
You don’t have to get mad at someone to work out a conflict. Hate is not a healer. Love is a healer.
When you speak with love, your thoughts and words will be understood much quicker by others.
Very timely message. I need it very much. I hope I am able to take it in and act differently because of it. Thank you for being led to write it.
Evan, I try to do what you wrote in today’s Blog. I really do. Sometimes I accomplish it, and sometimes I don’t, but thank God for C/S that teaches and open thought to better ways to handle such situations.
Thank you Evan for such words of wisdom. Every day we need to remember that Hate doesn’t heal. Love Heals!