WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY THAT?

We live in an age where we're all right all the time. Your opinion is as valid as my opinion, and they may be polar opposites. We think this is 'avant guard' or a sign of our progression as a people. Relative. Subjective. Post-Modern.
 
And yet so profoundly pre-evolutionary. Don't all animals think they are the right one? Doesn't every toddler think they are the right one? Oh, but we ‘agree to disagree.’ Really, do we? I think we agree to hate tacitly, subvert holistically, abuse shrewdly, betray secretly.
 
I'm a teacher and today we had parent-teacher meetings. Oh my, what an eye opener! To self, primarily. I am also a parent... and have been the child of 'advocating parents'... Oh my.
 
One verse that comes to my mind today is about my 'advocating' to God about my life. Proverbs 19:3 states,
 
'A person's own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the LORD.'
 
I have often gone to God, walked into his courts, completely overlooked his voice, his word, his ways, and completely overlooked my own choices, values and actions, and raged at him. I have an issue with God (who I think he is), and I have a powerful case and cause (for who I think I am).
 
Secondly, this verse challenges me this day, and I have seen its workings: '... a gentle answer breaks bones.' (Proverbs 25:15)
 
The most powerful moments and breakthroughs in my life, were never persuasive rationally. I have memories of tones, touch, quietness, forgiveness, even people allowing themselves to be broken by my wrongdoing.