Conflict: A Door to EITHER Healing OR Hurt

It's impossible to escape conflict, no matter how hard you try. It's an uphill battle convincing yourself that conflict is a normal part of day-to-day life. Conflict creates tension and anxiety when it’s perpetually at your doorstep. Conflict has the potential for prompting opposite responses.

It's possible for conflict to open the door either to understanding and more effective communication or to hurt feelings and vindictiveness. A couple's parenting style may be radically different, with the father being easier going and permissive and the mother following a structured, rules-oriented parenting style. Of course the children may favor the father’s approach.

Differences in parenting techniques may produce power struggles that cause children to suffer from anxiety and guilt. These struggles often produce mutual vindictive attitudes and acts of retaliation. Differences can be negotiated when two people are willing to let down their guards to see the value in each other's ideas. This is a step to forgiveness that the Lord God will certainly bless.  

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“Do not bear a grudge against others, but settle your differences with them, so that you will not commit a sin because of them.”

~Leviticus 19:17 Good News Bible

And do not neglect doing good and sharing; for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

~Hebrews 13:16 Williams – New Testament in the Language of the People