A STRAIGHT ROAD TO GOD

If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong also. -- Anonymous

And if that isn't the hardest axiom to apply in life, I dread finding the real one.

By "to apply," I mean, "to live and breathe" in not responding in kind. So that when, when, when, a dear friend causes us a teeny-tiny...certainly too small to mention, just let it go, no big deal...hurt, "and we are sore" anyway...not making them pay if only in our own mind has got to belong to God. Personally, I find it increasingly difficult to do, and shouldn't it be decreasingly difficult to do after all this time and effort spent learning and pondering, not to mention preaching?

Today, it is no inordinate strain on me to keep my mouth shut rather than reply in kind to snide and snarks. And I can walk away with a smile and an easy mind...truly! It is the hours later, when the thinking it over creeps in. Then. That is when I'm "in the wrong also."

I know the axiom is true, because in that thinking it over, I've never yet felt better about it or me. I do feel sore...physically, mentally and spiritually. No way that can be dressed up as "right" or even "not all that wrong."

Giftee! I just had a blinding flash of the obvious: My most difficult to do is my twisted, and my twisted still is loved by God. We are lovable to and loved by God, twisted inside or not.

The gold in the hardest axiom to apply in my life: The twisted is a straight road to God...to God.

Thank you.