Forgiving Someone When You Would Like To Smack Um

When someone you trust breaks a promise and hurts you, you are tempted to retaliate, either by physical violence or some sort of malicious behavior.  What are you going to do when someone seemingly lies to your face, breaks a promise, and does something they know will humiliate or hurt you. What do u do?  Well if u are a Christian you have to try, and show love and forgive. That is the hardest thing in the world to do. Don't do anything until you have cried all your tears away, and thrown all your tantrums you're going to throw, before God.  The bible says something about if you have something against somebody then you should go and talk to them about it and only them. If they won't listen then get an elder or a preacher ( I can't remember which) from the church and then go and try to talk to them again about it.  Anyway, after the fire and ice in your blood has cooled down, and you no longer want or are willing to do something bad to them, lol, then do your talking to God. Because if you don't wait until your calm, it is hard to hear from Him. Because He speaks in a still small voice.  Ask him to help show you what to do. Most of the time it is best just to give it to God, and let him take care of it. Then you do your part by letting it go. You have to release it, and forget it. Give it to God. Try to be peaceful and calm. Never let um see u sweat. I don't believe in letting people run over you, but I don't believe in disgracing God's name either if you can help it. Like I said, sometimes it is hard. If you do mess up, just ask God to forgive you and He will, cause he loves you.  Don't forget you have to forgive or you want to be forgiven!

Freedom

Sitting on a private beach in North Carolina, I saw her. She was beautiful, muscular, and strong. She was a Palomino. Her cream-colored Maine, flowing freely in the wind as she ran through the rushing waters of the sea. I could almost feel the ocean waters as it crashed up against her heels. She was beautiful in the wildest sense. She was free, untamed, unbridled, running with the waves of the ocean. I looked to where she was running and the light is shown down upon her, from the lighthouse, illuminating her, making her Maine shine underneath a midnight sky. Swiftly she ran without fear. The waves of the ocean seemed to almost overtake her as she crashed through them. She was running toward the lighthouse. Suddenly, I realized that palomino was me!


By: Bernice Bowling