Battles!

Chose your battles wisely.

Some things are worth getting upset about and some things are not.

Most of the difficulties that we encounter with other people are small potatoes!

Most of those small potato situations are usually matters of personality, style and preference differences that remind us just how unique each of us really are. You know how this looks: Somebody has an idea that is different from yours, or does things in a way that you would not do them, or has a different priority from yours and the challenge begins!

Are those matters really worth the battle?

Proverbs 10:32 is so powerfully true, “The lips of the righteous know what is fitting…” All of us must learn to let people be who they are and not try to force them into our mold. Do not label another person as difficult just because he or she disagrees with you or has mannerisms that make you uncomfortable.

To all who serve and lead, we must embrace what Count Niklaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf once said, “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.”