In a 1956 interview, then President Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles said:
“The ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.”
I am not afraid to “get to the verge” however I suspect I fight some battles I don’t need to. Perhaps a good dose of “the gentleness of wisdom” (James 3.13)will keep me from plummeting over the edge when I am on the brink of my next personal war.
