James 1:19-20

Quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry...how hard this is to do.

We women get so emotional sometimes, don't we? Even if it's not "that time of the month," as we are all too familiar with, I feel like some days someone can say one wrong thing and I completely snap. For no good reason at all!  I definitely need to work on being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. It is really easy to say something that can really hurt someone if we are not listening to them, and if we are not thinking about what we are saying. There's an obvious reason why God told us to be slow to speak and slow to anger. The world would be a lot better, and there would be much less misunderstanding if we would follow this principle. I know it's hard. We ALL need to pray and ask God to help us in this very hard area. There's a reason God called the tongue "a fire" (James 3:6). It is very easy to use our tongues to hurt someone, whether we mean to or not.

Today is Valentine's Day, perhaps one of the easiest days of the year to be kind and loving and happy with whomever God has placed in our lives. But soon today will be over. Then it will be Tuesday, and all of the magic rosepetal dust will have blown away, and it will just be another ordinary day, with the same struggles as before. So as the week goes on, let's hold onto that love which bites its tongue when it wants to lash out. The love that says, I refuse to get angry because I don't know the whole story yet, and I want to understand. That love is a God kind of love, and I think we could all use a little dose of that. :)

Have a wonderful Valentine's girls!