[Quix]

Did you understand, have any added discernment re my tornness in post #34?

[Alamo-Girl]

Consistently, the leaning I have in the Spirit is towards love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control which are the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23 (paraphrased.) I cannot imagine an instance where the Spirit would lean me towards anything else.

So although I can comprehend with my mind the tornness, the compulsion to meet fire with fire and such --- it doesn't register in my spirit.

IOW, the only possible reaction to being slapped, is to turn the other cheek. The only possible way to deliver a painful truth is with tenderness.