It can't always be my way

My daughter Jennifer is a pretty smart cookie. We were talking the other day about relationships. She said, “Sometimes people are not going to give you what you think you need. We need to understand that and accept that. If this is someone that we want to stay connected to, we need to work on the relationship and figure out how to keep the it going.”

Sometimes in relationships, you get what you want. Sometimes you don’t. We can still love people, even if it isn’t quite the way that we want it to be. In fact, as long as we are all balled up about what we think is wrong, or what we think we are not getting, we cannot love. We cannot love because our heart is filled with feelings about that which we wish were different. What if we release others from doing life the way we want them to do it. Then we would have space in our heart to love them, even if it isn’t exactly the way that we prefer.

"In honor preferring one another." Romans 12:10

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.

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