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00:00Relationship coaching. It's a beautiful thing, isn't it?
00:04Conflict resolution, baby! Honestly, what it all boils down to is perspective.
00:11Everybody's right. It's all according to how you see the situation. You just have
00:18to navigate through the nuances with some humility and be willing to look
00:22through the other person's eyes and perspective and gain different
00:28understanding from somebody else's viewpoint and shoes and perspective. But
00:34unfortunately, pride hinders most people from doing that. If we could just learn
00:39to take a deep breath, slow down, listen to one another and value one another's
00:45perspective, gain some clarity and some additional insight as to what they were
00:52thinking, what they were doing, how they are processing things internally when
00:57they said that or they did that, a lot of times the agony, the frustration, the
01:02chaos, the misery will dissipate and vanish because we'll realize, well, their
01:08hearts were actually pure and they had the best intentions and they meant well.
01:12And maybe we thought otherwise, but the Bible says, to the pure all things are
01:18pure. I believe that's in the book of Titus. So instead of assuming the worst,
01:22how about assuming the best in the people that love you and give them grace
01:28and peace and every opportunity to explain and reveal and further clarify
01:34what was going on inside of them. And maybe there's a degree of
01:39miscommunication, a language barrier, a culture barrier. Sometimes you're going
01:44through life fast and furious and haphazardly, don't explain things
01:48accurately, clearly and they're misconstrued or misinterpreted. So the
01:54Bible says love is patient. You want love in your life, you're gonna have to be
01:57patient. That's the first adjective God uses to describe the word love. So get
02:02some patience in your life. I've written three books, ironically, on this topic.
02:05It's not an easy topic to cultivate and live. It's easier to say than do. But if
02:11you really want love in your life, you have to cultivate patience to attract it,
02:16to get it, to grow it and to sustain and preserve it. And may God help us all to
02:21do so and live happily. It's better to be reconciled than to be right. So think
02:28about that for a few days and a lifetime. You can meditate upon that when you get
02:33into your next argument. It's better to be reconciled than to be right.