Like A Teapot

The problem in many of our relationships is that our accounts are overdrawn. When we make a mistake and we need a little mercy, understanding, or the benefit of the doubt, that person goes to our relationship account and discovers it is already empty. Now we must live constantly on edge. Minor issues become magnified. We have to guard every word that we say, because there is no reservoir of grace from which to draw in that relationship. We've exhausted the resources. And that's when little things turn into big things.