Love and Tenderness
I’m unfair when it comes to treating people. I don’t love them all unconditionally. It came to me as I was pondering over the events that disturbed me during the wedding dinner. I’ll cut the fat, minus the few illustrations and give you a lean message today.
For me, family relationships are ironclad. They can do no wrong. When they are weird, they are “just like that” to me in the same way I am “just like that” to them. There is this unlimited forgiveness and unconditional love (lucky more for me).
I don’t see how this should be different from your close friends, aquaintences, strangers, enemies. To me, that person who offends me is somebody’s brother/sister/mother/father/child. And as I thought further, I realised this person has a family who loves him and/or her unconditionally too and is willing to accept his/her faults just like my family is able to accept mine. So why can’t I? Its just simply sinful not to.
Jesus commands all to love unconditionally. “Love thy neighbour as thyself” and to “love your enemies”. I’ve been really really bad at this and worse, it always creeps on my face after a while and I choose to live that way.
Honestly, I wonder how to let this stuff just roll off me instead of sticking. “Don’t sweat the small stuff” like that popular book says. I’m like too ashamed to even admit to yx what’s really bothering me because like deep inside I know its ridiculous. Yet the flesh causes me to hold on to it.
I’m needing my super powerful number one friend to come comfort me. And actually, its probably him who’s been waiting all along to comfort me. Dear God.. I have no friend beside you. Teach me to be satisfied in you.
Tags: Friends & Family, Sharing