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Make no friendship with an angry man;
and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Proverbs 22:24,25
Have you ever seen an entire oyster shell without an oyster
in it? You may have wondered, How did the oyster get out?
You might look for a very mall hole in the top of the shell.
Such a hole is made by a whelk. This little ocean creature
has an appendage that works somewhat like an auger. With it,
the whelk bores into the oyster shell and then sucks the oyster
through the hole, little by little, until it has devoured it all.
Though small, a whelk can do great harm!
Very often, we allow another person's angry outbursts, their
critical remarks, or their cynical comments to bore a hole
into our good nature and rob us of our otherwise sunny disposition.
If we aren't careful, we can become irritated to the point where
genuine anger and bitterness begin to seethe in us. And when that
happens, we are in very real danger of experiencing disease,
disharmony, and discord.
One of the best things you can do is simply to avoid those
people whom you find irksome, continually critical, or habitually
angry at life, as well as those who seem to delight in needling you.
IN OTHER WORDS,
STAY OUT OF THE WAY OF WHELKS.
YOU'LL BE HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER FOR IT!
