DISSIPATING EVIL
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
May 5
If somebody comes into the room at home,
or into the office or shop,
looking as if he meant to make trouble,
just try switching your attention straight to the Divine,
instead of squaring up aggressively to meet the difficulty
or shrinking away to avoid it,
according to your temperament.
You will be amused and gratified to see
the anger fade from the subject's face
(which will mean that it has faded from his heart too)
and quite a different expression take its place.
I have myself seen several cases where men,
and on two occasions, children, were actually fighting,
and upon a spectator's "turning the check"
the strife ceased like magic.
Animals respond
even more easily to this treatment than do human beings.
I have seen two instances where dogs were fighting savagely
and all efforts to separate them had failed,
when the realization of the Presence of God's love
in all His creatures restored peace.
In one case it took several minutes' work,
in the other it was practically instantaneous.
“Be not overcome of evil,
but overcome evil with good”
Romans 12:21
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