[September 7]
[Love] is not easily provoked. I Corinthians 13:5
HAVE I the love which is good tempered, "not
easily provoked" to anger—love that enables me to see
both sides of a question, that gives me the spirit of a
sound mind, which enables me to perceive that exasperation
and violent anger are not only unbecoming
but worse than that, injurious to those toward whom
they may be directed, and also injurious in their effect
upon my own heart and body? Z'11-422 R4918:3(Hymn
18)