Some lessons in life, seemingly, need to be repeated time and time, and time, again.
Case in point: Before you go off on someone about something you are just sure is true . . . confirm it, regardless the apparent veracity of your source. Then, think twice, three times, before going off on someone, period.
You can apologize after, that is true.
But you can never take back what was said, emailed, whatever. It still scars, regardless of a mountain of subsequent remorse and pleas for forgiveness.
I have, more times than I will allow myself to think about long enough to count, been on the receiving end of this phenomenon.
And I have been the perpetrator, too. Even lately.
Makes me slap myself, and appreciate Grace all the more.
We all deserve a coach ticket to hell, many times over, based on what we have done, thought, or even deliberately ignored or dismissed in our relationships with other human beings.
It's a good thing, a very good thing, that our Judge offers us forgiveness, not because of what we do, but through Grace, i.e. unmerited favor. Because of who He is: Love.
Doesn't mean, though, that we cannot improve. Day by day, decision by decision, we can choose.
I am going to try to choose better, and to do that with renewed commitment.
How about you?
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