Healing a heart!
Soul Snack ... Healing a heart!
Scathingly the tongue snapped her usual venom. Accustomed as she was to delivering verbal aggression, the response she received was most unfamiliar.
The aura of good will nor the mantle of grace had ever shadowed her. Her existence was scaffolded by self-justifying vitriol. 'Reasonableness' had neither entered her mind nor was part of her vocabularly. Reasonableness she too had never received.
A verbal jolt, a response electrifying in its graciousness immediately snapped her to attention. No cursing present. No vengeance delivered. Her soul very strangely unassailed. Instantly the prepared words of re-attack fell from her lips. A dried tongue now moistened!
Ignited within was a new surprise. Gentleness had brought a calmer state. A soft response had neutralised the next spray of the returning poison. Rage now subdued by the respite.
She had no real opponent here. She had suffered deception again in her perceptions.
Peacefulness now approached her person. Calm advanced to her soul. Kindness had assailed her spirit and an unknown thankfulness arose in her heart.
A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Pr 15:1)