"First be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your gift to God." First I must get right with other people and then I can get right with God. If I hold resentment against someone, which I find it very difficult to overcome, I should try to put something else constructive into my mind. I should pray for the one against whom I hold the resentment. I should put that person in God's hands and let God show him or her the way to live. "If a man say: 'I love God' and hateth his brother, he is a liar, for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
#####ROSIE....i used to think that this meant *toadying up* to the ones who harmed me and just *forget what they did to me*...........until i read the 12 steps for abuse victims/surivors........steps 8 and 9 are this...........
8. Made a list of all the people we may have harmed (of our own free will), especially ourselves and our inner child(ren), and became willing to make amends to them all................9. Made amends to such persons wherever possible, except when to do so would result in physical, mental, emotional or spiritual harm to ourselves or others.......i had to *get right* with me/ God/ even life!!! not to mention my inner child who got it the worst!!!!!! and the **making amends* part????? i did this, WHEN it did not present any type of harm to me or others.........there is ONE step 8/9 i haven't really done yet!!!!! my oldest brother.......he hates me/ attacks me/ blames me for the abuse.....to *get with him* would cause me MORE injury than i have had with him....i tried this...but he was so hateful/ destructive....i gave it/him up......so did i fail, in *reconciling with thy brother??* NO!!!! i did not fail because i lifted him up in prayer.....i asked my higher to *take care of him/ to reaveal himself to him/ and to protect me from him*.....i than made the comittment to NOT condemn him anymore.....to quit *bashing* him anymore.....to LET HIM GO!!!!!!! in my last letter to him, i said "i give you over to your God and i let you GO...i release you and me from each other in pace" if i were put on the *witness stand* sure!!! i can't STAND him.....but i shall say and through clenched teeth!!!! "God bless him/ and reveal yourself to him/ protect me from him" until i can mean it!!!!! each time i think of him and want to *bash* him for his destructive/ *dart throwing at me* sessions...i say "God bless him................................." and you know, i recapture my serenity when i do this.........i don't love everyone...in fact there are people in my life, past and present that i really DISlike!!! but to keep my *inventory clean* i say the "God bless" thing, as i send the negativity back to its source.....my hp does not ask me to love the *unloveables* to honour the *dishonorables* but my hp DOES expect me to say "God bless" as i walk away from them!!!!!!!
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may see something good in every person, even one I dislike, and that I may let God develop the good in that person.
#######ROSIE....well the best i can do is pray that God reveal himself to that person, and i disassociate from them and their karma.....even dreadful people can teach us something....but i am not going to stick my arm in the serpents mouth to learn that lesson!!! i can do it at a DISTANCE!!!!!!! thank you DONE
