Mom said it, "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." I recently read an excerpt in a book that was a bit unkind to me. It was also 75% untrue. We have decided to do nothing about this, not to contact anyone or try to make a case for our "side" as it would probably would not change how this person feels.
The point of this blog is to say that it is very easy for someone to disagree with something or be hurt by something, and then in their pain, go spinning off on a tantrum, leaving a lot of body parts in their wake.
I think that everyone has done this at one time or another. We are in pain, and we are not thinking about those who may be hurt by our outbursts whether they are verbal or in print.
There is never anything to be gained by hurting back. In fact, usually when I have felt a pain, if I could find the person and talk it through, we always got it patched up. It is always better to say nicer things about someone than they deserve, than to allow your hurt to further drag a person down.
14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(V) and to be holy;(W) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(X) 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God(Y) and that no bitter root(Z) grows up to cause trouble and defile many. Hebrews 12:15
It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see, and say the good.
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Jeff, sorry this happened to you. As Billy Graham once said, we will never be free of some of the hard things of life, until we get to heaven. We live in such an imperfect and sometimes cruel world.
And as you said not long ago, sometimes when someone hurts another person, it tends to say more about the person who did the hurting, instead of the person they hurt.
Unfortunate, but love covers a multitude of hurts. And you are very much loved by your WCC family.
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