Cool Off

Do not go out hastily to argue your case;

Otherwise, what will you do in the end,

When your neighbor humiliates you?

Proverbs 25:9

Some lessons are hard learned.  Here in the United States people seem keen on taking one another to court over almost every little disagreement.  We have homeowner associations to protect our eyes from being assaulted by non-approved exterior paint colors and our ears from the thump of basketball playing kids.  We have businesses and organizations that argue about the copyright of a few words taken from the middle of a slogan.  We have brothers suing brothers over who got what when Mom died and we have parents bad mouthing one another because their kids are arguing. 

Much of this could be resolved outside of the courts and without the embarrassment of being publicly declared wrong or appearing silly, if we would take time to cool off and think before we open our mouths, because we might decide the best thing to do is nothing.