The hard lesson learning, however, is the minute we respond in kind or natter at will to others about the hurt...or, who's kidding whom, the originator of the hurt...we have us a self-inflicted wound.
A self-inflicted wound makes a mockery of forgiveness in the wash of ego's "poor, pitiful, put upon me." With ego riding herd, the hurt is justified, and repeatedly, by each resisting thought and retelling. Just so we can get the balm of sympathy...and, ahem, pay back the originator.
Comes the enlightening: Our hurt continues because our wound is being self-inflicted. We stop the hurt by praying not for the originator, who may well be happy as a pig in pig heaven, but for our thoughts about the originator.
There. Our proof that we have turned our will and our life over to the care of God...as suggested.
Thank you.
A self-inflicted wound makes a mockery of forgiveness in the wash of ego's "poor, pitiful, put upon me." With ego riding herd, the hurt is justified, and repeatedly, by each resisting thought and retelling. Just so we can get the balm of sympathy...and, ahem, pay back the originator.
Comes the enlightening: Our hurt continues because our wound is being self-inflicted. We stop the hurt by praying not for the originator, who may well be happy as a pig in pig heaven, but for our thoughts about the originator.
There. Our proof that we have turned our will and our life over to the care of God...as suggested.
Thank you.
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