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No this is not an ode to Betty White on her Birthday, even though my perception of her is that she was a cool person. Ironically, this is an indictment to my issue and hopefully, the recognition of it may help me put it death. MY ISSUE: I am soo soo soo petty. Yes. Call me Betty because I am PETTY.
Every day, I do my best to be holy and nice. I’ll wake up thinking and hoping and praying its going to be a great day and then BOOM. Someone forces it out of me. I am not a mean person by any stretch of the imagination, I just want to be left alone. You literally must purposely bother me for me to react in such a way. If I don’t laugh it off and we work on a way to settle it, I will revel in the day I can be justifiably break or cause you angst. I know… totally not representative of someone who loves Jesus. Therefore, I must call myself out on it. Why? Because being petty is a form of anger that has festered and is a reaction to the unforgiveness in your heart. Anger festers and perpetuates folly eventually spoiling everything around you. Unforgiveness means that you are holding that person captive in your mind and soul. It’s quite terrifying to see how we laugh at people being petty. We just pass it off as karma or that person is getting their ‘just due’. But what if God gave us our ‘just due’? It reminds me of the song “What if God was one of us” …. like what if? What if He was petty (and He has reason to be), would any of us exist? Could we look in the mirror and say we were justified in our petty actions towards Him? Your answer to those questions really is an indication of your maturity level. Hence, I am admitting that I have a lot of growing to do. As God has convicted me to share, I am praying for a new direction in how to deal with this issue. Maybe all of us have been guilty of it in some form, yet it’s no excuse to continue in it. To live at peace with your neighbor and humbly amongst all people, we need to take the bitter with the sweet. Not saying to ignore anger or any unjust action, but I am building my toolbox of ways to address it in a stern, yet loving way. I shouldn’t allow or scheme or give space for harm to come to someone else simply because they treated me wrong. There is no justice in that. There is no rectifying it either. We can’t go back in time to correct those errors. We need to address the now to have a more peaceful future. Take corrective actions to the wrongdoing. Have discussions and build bridges to forgiveness that no one is held captive in your mind and spirit. Because when you face your end, Betty won’t be there to help you! “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.” ~Exodus 23: 4 – 5
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