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178: How to Be a Peacemaker in Contentious Times

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Self-improvement, Education

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

If you've been on social media at all in the past couple of weeks, and really in the past couple of years, you know that when issues hit the internet they tend to blow up like an explosive. So when some really heated and emotionally charged current events started to blow up on social media in the past week, I turned to the scriptures and to talks and sources of truth to try to find not only answers to my questions, but how to appropriately share whatever god might want me to share. The answers that I found were different than I expected, mostly centered around being a peacemaker, so that's what we're going to talk all about today. The need for a peacemaker in this world and how to become one. Time Stamps: [00:46] - Corrine talks about society’s reaction to the series of legislation changes in the US. [02:38] - Is there a time where Neil felt he had to be more of a peacemaker? [05:29] - Staying stuck on ill-feelings ruins your experience of life. [07:23] - We must individually seek peace and harmony within ourselves to do the same with others. [09:37] - Peacemakers are not passive; they are persuasive. [11:39] - Take a moment before you respond to something that makes you upset. [13:17] - Withdraw from anger and contention. [14:54] - Peacemakers break the cycle. [17:18] - Beware of pride. [20:08] - Do people really need to comment on everything? [22:57] - Go to sources of truth. [25:38] - How can we bring peace into a heated conversation? [27:44] - “God does not send thunder when a still, small voice is enough.” [29:20] - The common ground in the truth is greater than our differences. [32:08] - Lean into being a peacemaker in our society. Supporting Resources: “The Power of Spiritual Momentum” Talk by Russell M. Nelson “Following Jesus: Being a Peacemaker” Talk by Neil A. Anderson “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Book by Dale Carnegie “Our Hearts Knit as One” Talk By Henry B. Eyring Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, I'm Jack Grealish. I think you can listen to music from relaxing to

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headphones enjoying his favorite music with more immersive sound than ever

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Get yours at bows.co. UK.

0:28.0

Bose, sound is power.

0:30.0

If you've been on social media at all the past couple of weeks, or really in the past couple of years,

0:36.0

you know that when issues hit the internet they tend to blow up like an explosive.

0:40.0

So when some really heated and emotionally charged current events started to blow up on

0:45.2

social media in the past week, I turned to the scriptures and to talks and sources of truth

0:51.1

to try to find not only answers to my questions but how to appropriately

0:55.1

share whatever God might want me to share. The answers that I found were

0:59.1

different than I expected, mostly centered around being a peacemaker, so that's what we're going to talk all about today.

1:05.0

The need for a peacemaker in sleep over and it started with Friday the announcement of the overturn of

1:27.2

Royal versus Wade and I just observed how people dealt with that for the next few days and there was so much outrage and contention and fighting and a lot of negativity and I understand there's a lot of feelings there's a lot of

1:45.4

emotions it's you know a weighty subject but I thought a lot about not only what my thoughts and feelings were on that issue, but also

1:56.5

how interesting it is to see how our society responds to things now versus before social media.

2:05.0

And sometimes it really can feel like social media is such an echo chamber

2:09.0

and anything that pops up, other people start echoing it and repeating things. that can go

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