Friday!

Proverbs!

A stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

Proverbs 27:3 CSB

A nice word picture here of heavy things in the physical realm, things that can be hard to shift, and comparing them with the words and ideas of people in our lives. 

How do we shift heavy stones? If they're too big, too heavy we need to recruit someone to help. 

Maybe it's the same when someone is "winding us up" or "wearing us down" with their aggravation, we need to recruit someone to help. 

To help us gain perspective, to get some distance, to devise a strategy or response so that the other person's aggravation, whether it's about us or someone or something else, doesn't become our burden, our weight to carry. 

I wonder what the writer of this Proverb would advise us today when the sources of aggravation can come at us through tik tok, Instagram, snapchat, the radio, TV, internet and there's noise all the time. 

I wonder if the advice would be to turn off the source, to shut off the notifications, to spend some time with the stars, the trees, the river, the ocean, and with the people who speak peace into our lives.

We're not made for a world of aggravation.

May you and I find some slivers of peace today, without the weight of rocks and sand

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