Relationships.
Relationships are hard.
People can be difficult.
If everybody thought like me, agreed with me, was nice to me, catered to me, life would be so much easier.
Me me me.
Unfortunately, relationships aren’t about just me. Or just you.
I used to think marriage was 50/50 and then I heard it was really 100/100 and that made a lot more sense.
But what about the relationships beyond your marriage, if you are married.
What about the relationships with your kids? Your in-laws? Your co-workers? Your neighbors? Your friends?
Good relationships take real work. They take effort, and intention, and time. And grace.
Grace that goes both ways.
It breaks my heart to see broken relationships, especially within families.
I am not immune, which is perhaps why it makes me sad.
Something was said, or something wasn’t said. Somebody did something, or they didn’t do anything.
We hang on to it. It was personal, don’t ya know.
Sure it hurt!
So we harbor the grudge. We make the insult more important than the person. And we write them off.
Silence. Snubs.
For years.
To what end?
My Dad was fond of asking, “Do you want to be right or do you want to be reconciled?”
You can carry being right to your grave, but why?
Sometimes they just don't want you in their life. I'm presently going thru this. Sometimes you have to set boundaries & have a standard about how your to be treated. All I can do is leave them alone and pray. Let God deal with them 🙏
Very true. I use that saying from your Dad often. Will be using it tomorrow in bible study. Our pride is the issue of wanting tk be right. Humility is the heart of reconciliation.