Following The Ultimate Forgiveness

It is important for me to always remember that I need to keep myself in check and watch my mouth. No matter how angry I am, I need to take it to prayer.

I need to check myself now. There is no need for me to take my complaints to others on this earth, their is only one entity that I should take them to. GOD. He loves me and he wants only good for me. But he loves everyone else too. He is trying to bring good to everyone. He wants all of us to walk this earth in his image. So I need to tame my tongue. Which it appears, for those who know me, is a major work in progress. But if I truly want God to make me all that I was meant to be, then I need to follow ALL of his commandments. And murdering someone else’s image by talking about them is not allowed in his Kingdom.

Today in church they talked about removing the log in your own eye before removing the speck in others. I had that issue A MAJOR ISSUE.

You see, I was blinded by intense anger for a lot of years. There are a lot of reasons for that anger that I won’t go into here. That does’t matter anymore. The reasons for the anger are gone. However, during my darkest times, I was trying to remove specks in other people’s eyes while I was blinded to my own anger (my log). I felt that other people were living selfishly and that they were mean to other people. I tried to call them out. I’m not sure if I was necessarily wrong in my observations; however, the way that I was going about informing other people of the infractions was not useful. I was being judgmental and hurtful and other people just didn’t hear me. ALL THEY SAW WAS AN ANGRY PERSON.

I fell on my sword and crucified myself.

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Pies

In her book “The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers”, Amy Hollingsworth states that Fred Rogers deplored the demeaning behavior of people “throwing pies in other people’s faces.

You see – He was bullied when he was a child.  He was overweight and other children did not like him to the point that they wanted to physically and emotionally abuse him.  However, he had an angel in the form of an older neighbor who would take him in and protect him from the bullies.  Fred resented the teasing.  He resented how it made him feel.

But he had two directions to go.  He could have

1. Turned into a bully himself.

2. Learned how to treat others better.

Mr. Rogers chose #2 and made a career out of it.  Mr. Rogers created beauty out of pain.

ARE YOU READY TO CREATE BEAUTY OUT OF YOUR PAIN?  JOIN ME.

Tell me something positive that you could do to get you through your pain.  I will help you in any way I can.  Including holding you accountable.