Offense is inevitable, but taking it is optional. When you carry offense, it creates stress—and stress shows. It hardens your expression, your tone, your presence. You experience true peace when you choose to let go of hurt and offense. Ephesians 4:31-32 "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.  Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."