Sunday Chip---Forgiving/Resentful

[SunnyGirl]

Sunday Chip---Forgiving/Resentful

When I first began working on these defects of character,
I would get discouraged when they weren’t immediately gone.
Well, that was about 5 years ago and it appears I will have to
work on them each day as they crop up. I will never be cured,
I am human, but the good news is I am still working.

I am a Miracle in Progress…. Today, I try to keep my side of
the street swept, so resentments don’t build up. I try to talk and
reason things out and if an agreement can’t be made, I will
walk away and weigh my options. I am much quicker to forgive
today. When I’ve acted badly and need to make amends, I’d like
to think the person I have hurt would be willing to forgive me.
God has already forgiven me, I just have to keep forgiving myself
for my defects.

Peace on the journey, SunnyGirl

[Lin]

I agree.. When I deal with anger and let go of the little things, they don't have time to fester and build up into full blown resentments.

I had a huge resentment of my older brother for my whole life. WHen i foudn recovery, he was the one I had to pray for the longest and most dilligently. SOme days it was through clenched teeth...Lord, LEt him have whaat he needs today. And all the while I thoguth what he needed was a good butt kicking. But I kept praying for my resentments to be lifted and today I can talk to him, be at a social gathing with him and no was to run the other way.

I still dont approve of his actions, but at least I dont let them interfere with my serenity.
A resentment is a cup of poison we prepare for another and end up drinking ourselves. When i think of it that way, I know the person I am resenting is not even feeling the pain I am over this resentment. I am the one suffering and carrying th pain and the burden. When i let go of these resentments and accept others as they are, I am much happier.

LIN

LIN