Grace Pondering
How do you treat someone who has no grace for other people but expects it from everyone else? It is a quandary that has long puzzled me.
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What do you do when fear, anger or frustration stops you from unconditional acceptance and begins judging?
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Can you accept others if you do not have a base of acceptance to fall back upon?
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Is it possible to be loved? To be loving?
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In my experience it isn't enough to have head knowledge that God loves you, you must also have the human representation that you are loved and accepted as you are by at least one person, hopefully more.
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You gain confidence by loving and being loved in return. Consistently.
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What if everything you say is taken to mean something personally demeaning? What turns a person into someone in whom paranoia reigns? I worked with some of these individuals until just recently. It was unnerving to say the least. It was downright despicable and immoral at the most. Wrong is wrong is wrong, and I wonder if they can ever be "normal" again? Do you think they could ever learn that not everyone is against them? That not everyone cares about their little universal power mongering as much as they dwell upon it themselves?
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Scrabbling to hold onto something generally leads to defensive lines. Can we be so full of Grace that we don't need to hold on to anything?
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Broken. What makes us broken? Are we just broken when we don't meet God's ideal? Isn't that all? And if that's the case, can't we be healed if He is doing the instructing?
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What do you do with the frustration when it all remains the same and the lesson needs repeating again for the umpteenth time? That's what I'm wondering particularly with my kids this evening.
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How do we get past our selfishness to face confidently the path for building something bigger than ourselves?
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What do you do when fear, anger or frustration stops you from unconditional acceptance and begins judging?
.
Can you accept others if you do not have a base of acceptance to fall back upon?
.
Is it possible to be loved? To be loving?
.
In my experience it isn't enough to have head knowledge that God loves you, you must also have the human representation that you are loved and accepted as you are by at least one person, hopefully more.
.
You gain confidence by loving and being loved in return. Consistently.
.
What if everything you say is taken to mean something personally demeaning? What turns a person into someone in whom paranoia reigns? I worked with some of these individuals until just recently. It was unnerving to say the least. It was downright despicable and immoral at the most. Wrong is wrong is wrong, and I wonder if they can ever be "normal" again? Do you think they could ever learn that not everyone is against them? That not everyone cares about their little universal power mongering as much as they dwell upon it themselves?
.
Scrabbling to hold onto something generally leads to defensive lines. Can we be so full of Grace that we don't need to hold on to anything?
.
Broken. What makes us broken? Are we just broken when we don't meet God's ideal? Isn't that all? And if that's the case, can't we be healed if He is doing the instructing?
.
What do you do with the frustration when it all remains the same and the lesson needs repeating again for the umpteenth time? That's what I'm wondering particularly with my kids this evening.
.
How do we get past our selfishness to face confidently the path for building something bigger than ourselves?
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