A Peaceful Place

Good Morning!! Home,...it's where we go to refuel, restore, replenish. We are all warriors,...going out into the world, where we fight for a living. But the homecoming of the weary warrior, is not always what we envisioned. We're often greeted with a snippy remark, screaming children and a frozen bed. Immediately we just want to turn, and run back to the fighting world, where at least we know who the enemy is. And a lot of the time, the world not only seems to be winning, we can feeling like the victims of water torture. That's when you are restrained, lying face up with water hitting you on the forehead, right between the eyes,…one drip at a time. It has been known to drive people crazy. Just the craving for it to stop, can be maddening.
A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.—Proverbs 15:13 (NIV)
Peace,...that's all any of us really want, that one place we feel safe,...where we can find rest. Surrounded by people we love, and that love us back. Compliments, instead of complaints. People we work with, and for. But we can't just look for it,...we have to be it for others as well. ask yourselves; are you practicing water torture on the people in your lives? Are you killing them, one drop at a time? Relationships don’t fail overnight; it takes months, sometimes years of maddening quarrels to finally snap the final thread of sanity. Which means there's still a chance to turn things around,...to make, and have, a peace-filled home.

You can be the towel that wipes the sweat from your weary warrior's brow,...or the drip that drives him mad.

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Heavenly Father, we praise You for giving us Your Words of wisdom. Teach us today how to be encouragers, and not discouragers,... who hug and not harm,...who lift up, and not drip quarrels onto weary hearts. Forgive us when our homes don’t reflect Your love. In Jesus’ Name we pray, Amen.

"When you are behaving as if you love someone, you will soon come to love them."