Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Genesis 33:1 Two brothers didn't talk for 62 years after a quarrel

President Thomas S. Monson:
"Many years ago I read the following Associated Press dispatch which appeared in the newspaper: An elderly man disclosed at the funeral of his brother, with whom he had shared, from early manhood, a small, one-room cabin near Canisteo, New York, that following a quarrel, they had divided the room in half with a chalk line, and neither had crossed the line or spoken a word to the other since that day - 62 years before. Just think of the consequence of that anger. What a tragedy!"
"May we make a conscious decision, each time such a decision must be made, to refrain from anger and to leave unsaid the harsh and hurtful things we may be tempted to say" ("School Thy Feelings, O My Brother," Ensign, Nov. 2009, 68-69).