“Better a dry morsel with quietness,
Than a house full of feasting with strife.”
(Proverbs 17:1)
Better a 750-square-foot apartment with a cramped but happy family,
Than 3000 square feet of luxury and constant fighting.
Better one small salary and a serene couple,
Than two lucrative incomes and a marriage strained to the point of bust-up.
Better to get by on pennies and be at peace with each other,
Than to load up on stuff and stuff and more stuff and then fight over it.
Better to be poor and content,
Than to be rich and never satisfied.
Better to picnic at the park,
Than to blow the bank on a vacation that begins and ends in an argument.
Better to sit down to your beans and rice with a clear conscience,
Than trying to digest ribeye on a guilty stomach.
Better wafers and "the cheap stuff" with the peace of Christ,
Than forty-dollar wine, a loaf of the finest, and strife and envy to go along with it.
Better a PB & J with kids under control,
Than fine restaurant dining with kids that are not.
Better fat souls with thin bellies,
Than full bellies and lean souls.
Better to have little and be grateful,
Than to have much and be easily peeved.
“Lord God, we give thanks for all You have given us, great and small, and we give thanks for peace in our midst. Grant us contentment with our “dry morsels,” and forgive us for striving and arguing and chafing when the feasting is so plentiful. Grant us wisdom to choose peace over prosperity when the choice is before us, and multiply our peace in our prosperity, O God. We pray in Christ’s name. Amen.”
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