I am a very broken person. One whom has come from parts of my past that have caused me to retreat into myself and mistrust others around me. You have no idea what you have done to cause this. It breaks me so many ways. I know that broken people hurt others. It's never that I mean to do it, but as a defense mechanism, it happens.
I also know that in my brokenness, I need to be healed. Healed from the hurts that people have unknowingly inflicted on me. I am stronger than this because of God and his healing graces. But, I need to trust Him for the healing. I don't like feeling this way at all!
All of us are broken in one way or another. Some of us can hide it really well through their social interactions, while others aren't so good at it and it makes them seem very unfriendly and mistrusting, like me.
I have the need to change these things a lot....Sometimes, the things in my head, are the thoughts that give me some comfort for the things I may need to change. Jesus is the only healer that will truly get me to replace the brokenness with wholeness and mercy.
These things will only be accomplished as I grow in relationship to Him. It has happened in the past, and the only thing that will help to heal me in the future. I am praying for the changes to come and for me to be brave enough to change according to what He has set out for me; even with life's challenges ahead.
Acceptance of myself with others in the world is futile as He is the only one who has accepted me already!!
Monday, February 11, 2019
Friday, February 8, 2019
Forgiveness
What can be more important in life than forgiveness? Really, nothing. Without forgiveness we cannot learn to love others or ourselves. Without forgiveness we cannot grow, and without forgiveness we cannot live as Christ our Lord expects us to.
I have seen so often in recent times the lack of forgiveness in so many things. We think that we are doing some sort of justice by holding on to something that happened so long ago. We think somehow that by continuing to beat a dead horse, as it were, that we are going to get things accomplished.
What are we accomplishing? Actually, nothing other than holding onto that grudge, the unwillingness to forgive, the unwillingness to grow or simply say 'I'm sorry' and I will change from what has happened. How do we know that the person we are talking about hasn't gone through some kind of transformation in their own life, or simply been unaware that they needed to be forgiven, or that they have needed someone to say, 'OK, you messed up and with time you have changed, so I forgive you for what you did because you are not the same person, and/or you are aware of the changes you now need to make'.
I find it quite ironic that Christ says to love one another and that means to forgive someone for things in the past and keep yourself and them on track by accountability; to follow the examples of Him who forgives all things if we are to call upon Him, His Son and repent (turn around) from where we have been and move forward in love, humbleness and the right ways.
We can't keep turning around and talking about these things. Mind your business!! Let others go to at least keep yourself on track and not distracted, and let them live in the ways that they are to be and walk beside them and remind them to do the same.
We must be more empathetic to the plight of all in our world and the lies that we have been fed for so long in regard to judgment and forgiveness.
Do the right thing and live in forgiveness and help those who cannot do so.
I have seen so often in recent times the lack of forgiveness in so many things. We think that we are doing some sort of justice by holding on to something that happened so long ago. We think somehow that by continuing to beat a dead horse, as it were, that we are going to get things accomplished.
What are we accomplishing? Actually, nothing other than holding onto that grudge, the unwillingness to forgive, the unwillingness to grow or simply say 'I'm sorry' and I will change from what has happened. How do we know that the person we are talking about hasn't gone through some kind of transformation in their own life, or simply been unaware that they needed to be forgiven, or that they have needed someone to say, 'OK, you messed up and with time you have changed, so I forgive you for what you did because you are not the same person, and/or you are aware of the changes you now need to make'.
I find it quite ironic that Christ says to love one another and that means to forgive someone for things in the past and keep yourself and them on track by accountability; to follow the examples of Him who forgives all things if we are to call upon Him, His Son and repent (turn around) from where we have been and move forward in love, humbleness and the right ways.
We can't keep turning around and talking about these things. Mind your business!! Let others go to at least keep yourself on track and not distracted, and let them live in the ways that they are to be and walk beside them and remind them to do the same.
We must be more empathetic to the plight of all in our world and the lies that we have been fed for so long in regard to judgment and forgiveness.
Do the right thing and live in forgiveness and help those who cannot do so.
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