Welcome to Enjoying Every Day Life with New York Times Best Selling Author Joy Smire.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series,

recognizing and dealing with strife.

Everywhere we look, it seems there is something or someone we can choose to be upset with.

We can bicker about any topic on social media or criticize others for their opinions and beliefs.

Often we get that uneasy feeling that everything is just not okay.

There is good news.

With God's help, we can improve and even have unity in our relationships.

Be encouraged as Joyce shares how we can overcome strife and receive God's peace for our lives.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

First Peter 3, 3 and 4.

Let not yours be merely external adorning.

With elaborate interweaving and nodding of the hair of the wearing of jewelry or the changes of clothes.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't wear jewelry or wear clothes or fix your hair.

What he's saying is, you spend so much time on the outside trying to impress each other.

Now ladies, I say this in a spirit of love, so just take it that way.

If we spent as much time getting ready spiritually, as we spend trying to look cute when we go out, need I finish?

I mean, I don't look like this when I get up.

I have to work on this a long time.

You have to wash the hair, put on the makeup, curl the hair, comb the hair, try to put on another set of clothes.

And then there's the other side of it.

There's the people that you look at them and say, did you not look in the mirror this morning?

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