Hey everyone!
So I was reading proverbs the other day when I had to stop and laugh! I read the verse Proverbs 21:9 “It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.” For some reason this made me laugh…I think it was due to the fact that I was imagining a man on the top of a house huddled in a corner with a woman down below throwing a fit yelling at the man her opinion. I started to think about this verse and I realized I had absolutely no idea what the word contentious actually meant. I looked it up in the dictionary and found out it meant exhibiting an often perverse and wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes. Thinking about some people I know who are hard to be around because all they want to do is argue and prove their point, I was reminded of myself when I was younger and I would argued with my brother just to, well argue I thought about how that must have been for my mom to have to stand the constant bickering between the two of us. So to all of you out there, be aware of how you act. Cuz In this world you will always be able to find people willing to argue, but when are people going to stop and just listen?
Good post. I think we can all work a little on listening more. My dad always says that God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason…. A great saying to remember.
Good job, Abby. It is so easy to speak your mind, but it is difficult to be a good listener.
It is something every last one of us can work on.
You know what else is funny? In the Chinese language, the pictograph for the word trouble, is a combination of the symbols of two women under one roof. Sounds like they were thinking the same thing Solomon was.
But I, too, have to be careful, because there are times when it’s easy for me to start arguing a point long beyond the realization that the other person isn’t going to see my side of things. I do know there are more important things in life than arguing, and that silence is sometimes respected more than a thousand words.