The Quiet Life

Proverbs17:1  Better is a dry morsel with quietness,
Than a house full of feasting with strife.

A modest life, hardworking and quiet is nothing to be ashamed of. A house that is united and a family that respects and honors is to be cherished and guarded.  The focus seems to be here on the relationships, not on the opulence.  In today’s world we can get lost on the acquisition of stuff and loose the priority of healthy, nurturing relationships. I am reminded here of the definition of love:

            ⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.⁸ Love never fails 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Msg
Love is quiet, isn’t it? Faithfulness does not make a big show of itself, it just is and it just does. Love is just a sweet place to call home, separate and apart from the gluttony of possession and strife.  Might we remember that it isn’t about our stuff and our excess, but about those closest to us and the interactions that we have moment by moment.