Responding Instead of Reacting

There Are Two Ways to Respond If you’re carrying something heavy right now,

this moment is for you. Especially if you’ve been triggered lately. If something small

turned into something bigger. If you reacted… and then wished you hadn’t.

This isn’t about shame. It’s about awareness. James 1:19–20 says “Wherefore,

my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” Most conflict doesn’t

start with intention. It starts with emotion. A tone. A comment. A look.

And suddenly we’re reacting instead of responding. In the Book of James, James doesn’t tell