Bad business gets you bad business. When we put ugly out there, no matter how un-ugly or even justified we call it, we get ugly back.
The spiritual lesson is to promptly admit our bad, and this is where we really learn the old adage that you can't unring a bell. The one we pushed may very well hear our admission of wrong, not give a rap, and push again, harder and uglier.
This is where so many of us falter and fail for now there are choices. For instance, do we continue the push-back-harder game? Or do we mentally write this person off as a loser and walk away (with a resentment that will wake us at 3:00 AM whenever it chooses)? Or do we choose forgiveness where we trust God utterly (with the risk of offering forgiveness and getting laughed at in return)?
At some point in our evolving life, and we get to determine how long this takes, but at some point we must needs hold our nose and take a leap of faith...and choosing forgiveness is often the jump point...out there into the unknown, no net, no parachute, nothing but the faith we've been graced with.
Our holdback, of course, is our fear that we don't have enough faith to make the leap. The fact of faith is, it only takes an amount the size of a mustard seed. And the only way to know if we have enough is to use what little we have...hold our nose and go for it.
In making the choice of forgiveness, we shuck our shields and stand bare before our world, and thank God for the grace of forgiveness. For all of us. Forever. Or just for the moment.
Thank you.
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