Thursday, April 7, 2011

Our Contacts

Every day of our life we come in contact with people, events, problems and situations which bring out emotional feelings within us. How we deal with these feelings can vary drastically from one individual to the next.

One person might explode with anger and rage, another with calm contemplation when an accident occurs. The one individual reacts with verbal or physical abuse, the other with reason and willingness to correct the problem.

Unfortunately, the ability to cope with frustrations is becoming a lost art. Parents and teachers don't always know how to curb their own feelings and so aren't able to teach their children or students the skills needed in dealing with day-to-day stresses.

Children look at adults as their role models for dealing with all types of situations in life... both the good and bad! The inability to react properly is being passed on from adult to child! When the adult flies-off into a rage each time an unpleasant situation arises, it's only natural for the child to also react in the same manner.
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8 But now also put off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, shameful speech out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds 10 and having put on the new, having been renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave or freeman, but Christ is all things in all. 12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long- suffering, 13 forbearing one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone has a complaint against any. As Christ forgave you, so also you do. 14 And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. Colossians 3 8-14

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