What does it take to unsettle you? A thought? An unexpected development? Someone with differing opinions? How strong are your convictions in what you believe?
In the area of self-protection, stubbornness serves us well. We are hard-headed, fixed in our thinking. We are quick to fight for our right.
Protecting others requires releasing our self-protection tendencies. It's a heart thing. A hard heart is a rock in comparison to a hard head. The only way to soften it is in small doses, hack, hack, hack. It is painful. The best defence? An old proverb by the man considered to be the wisest of men - king Solomon:
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."
To be immovable, unshakable, undeterred, one has to first be moved, shaken and deterred. Then choose to guard what is good.
In the area of self-protection, stubbornness serves us well. We are hard-headed, fixed in our thinking. We are quick to fight for our right.
Protecting others requires releasing our self-protection tendencies. It's a heart thing. A hard heart is a rock in comparison to a hard head. The only way to soften it is in small doses, hack, hack, hack. It is painful. The best defence? An old proverb by the man considered to be the wisest of men - king Solomon:
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."
To be immovable, unshakable, undeterred, one has to first be moved, shaken and deterred. Then choose to guard what is good.