Monday, September 5, 2016

Dissenters

  But it came to pass in the fifty and sixth year of the reign of the judges, there were dissenters who went up from the Nephites unto the Lamanites; and they succeeded with those others in stirring them up to anger against the Nephites; and they were all that year preparing for war.
Helaman 4:4

Honest disagreement is no bar to amity;

but backbiting dissension leads to dire calamity.

No two people think alike but that's no cause to fight.

Only lust for power turns debate to dynamite. 

So if your shoulder holds a chip, don't nail it down -- instead

pry it loose and throw it into any old woodshed.

Stow your tongue and bow your head, then turn the other cheek;

otherwise a traitor you'll become and havoc wreak.

And when the battle's over, win or lose, you won't receive

any of the plaudits that you thought you would achieve. 

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