Proverbs 13

Proverbs 13

I have been experiencing changing conditions in my work place.  My pay has been cut due to the cost of health care and my employer has re-purposed me and asked me to teach different courses.  My pay has significantly been reduced and my hours have been changed.  My schedule changes have directly impacted my time to pick up my daughter on Thursdays.  My ex-wife she is difficult to work with and has a hard problem cooperating.

Proverbs 13 states the following:

2 A man shall eat well by the fruit of his mouth,
But the soul of the unfaithful feeds on violence.
3 He who guards his mouth preserves his life,
But he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

It is interesting because she started on of her emails but stating that she did not want me to be mad.  Mad? I am not the one with the temper issues.  Yet she starts her email this way and then goes on to say all kinds od dumb things... and calls them facts.  It is funny!! Comical!!! But yet scary. 

I was so tempted to rebuttal and clarify her misconceptions but I resisted and was reminded of the scripture above.  It is true.  I did not want to commit to statements that were going to be memorialized in an email that can and could be used against me later. 

In these changes, I have to be reminded that it is not my pride or my convenience but my daughters best interest. 

I want to do right but I struggle understanding what is right??  If I allow my ex-wife to get her way with everything, she will make sure my daughter does not see me and has a very false idea of who I am. On the other hand, fighting will only give her the impression that I am a mad lunatic and have temper issues.

The right way is being prudent!!!

15 Good understanding gains favor,
But the way of the unfaithful is hard.
16 Every prudent man acts with knowledge,
But a fool lays open his folly.

Prudent means to be wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.

Prudence in this case will mean to take my time in responding to her. I do not have to address her madness and will be short clear and direct without being a jerk or offensive.

If you read this and you pray, pray for me.