Romans 12:18. Paul calls believers to live peaceably with all, so far as it depends on them, releasing what is beyond their control while owning what is.
Ephesians 4:26. Be angry, and sin not. Anger is not forbidden, but it is fenced in so the sun does not set on a burning wound.
Paul writes to a fractured community. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the deliberate choice to pursue reconciliation without letting resentment take root overnight.
Father, make me a peacemaker. Guard my tongue from grievous words and my heart from an old, untended anger.
What peace is within my power to pursue today that I have been waiting on someone else to start?
Before the day ends, address one unresolved tension directly and kindly, without rehearsing the argument first.
