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Overlooking Insults (Proverbs 12:16)

with Ron Deal | May 13, 2024
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What would your friends say? That you are quick to react when frustrated or careful to respond?

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  • Ron Deal

    Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

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    Ron Deal

    Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and ...more

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Overlooking Insults (Proverbs 12:16)

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May 13, 2024
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Ron: What would your friends say? That you are quick to react when frustrated, or careful to respond?

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: Proverbs 12 suggests that it’s foolish to be reactive when someone annoys us. I suppose because it makes a bad situation worse. One poor reaction invites another. Pretty quickly you’ve got an escalating argument. By contrast, the prudent or wise person overlooks an insult. You mean, like in choosing not to be bothered by it? Yeah, sometimes. Or at other times they may look beneath the insult and wonder what need this reveals in the person who said it, and how they might minister to that need.

In blended families, when emotions are running high, this kind of wisdom goes a long way toward bridging gaps and healing hearts.

For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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