A gentle answer turns away wrath,
But a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1
Sometimes we become roaring angry because someone says or does something to us. Maybe your car got ran into or someone mistreated your child or it is an offhand remark that we take a little too personally. And, maybe we are perfectly justified to be angry or maybe not.
However, before we fire off our mouth and make a bad situation worse or stir up a fist fight, we need to pause and calm down. Grandma said we should count to ten before we speak, but it might be better to count to fifty. Then choose our words carefully so we make peace.
The time to defuse a volatile situation is before it gets volatile.
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