Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast with Chad and Tori.

Hello to our weekend warriors. We are super excited for every Saturday where we extend the conversation

and have a longer form episode for you all. I think today's is going to be about conflict.

Yeah. Which before you guys start to feel weird about that, we just, oh, okay.

I'm leaving that in there. Before you guys, apparently Tori's allergic to conflict. Before you

all feel like you're allergic to conflict, we just want to give you a quick little reminder that

if you have relationships in your life, you're likely going to experience conflict.

And so we want to encourage you guys to listen to that. But we're going to jump in two days

devotional and then head over to that conversation. Yes. Okay, you guys. So today we are so

switching it up a little bit. I thought it would be fun on some random Saturdays to switch up the

diva. So today we're reading the meaning of marriage, a couple's devotional by Timothy and

Kathy Keller. And we're on April 24th. And it says, the Christian approach begins with a different

analysis of the situation. We believe that as badly wounded as a person may be, the resulting

self absorption of the human heart was not caused by the mistreatment. It was only magnified

and shaped by it. This is not to say wounded people don't need great gentleness, tender treatment,

affirmation, and patience. It is just that this is not the whole story. And then it goes on to say

a multitude of causes while we can be damaged by people sitting against us. Nevertheless,

no one begins life in a pristine spiritual condition. If you read Psalms 14, 2 through 3,

and 58, 3 reminds us that we are prone to sin, selfishness, and lying as soon as we are born.

But just is a bodily infection can be exacerbated by poor nutrition, lack of sleep, and stress. So a

sinful nature can be further inflamed by harsh treatment, isolation, ignorance, poverty, and other

factors, both internal and external. Christians must address with compassion the social causes of

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