Rhonda, good wisdom. It takes strength to tell your feelings to others.
At 06:00 PM 1/15/04 -0500, Rhonda Partain wrote:
>I was just thinking, can't really do to much else, it's to cold. Anyway, I
>was thinking about relationships, between friends, between marriage
>partners, between family members, and between church members. One thing all
>these relationships have in common is that sometimes people are hurt. I
>don't know about the rest of you, but I tend to run away from my hurt
>feelings. I don't like feeling angry,, or hurt. I am afraid of saying
>something that will make things worse, and so I make things worse by saying
>nothing at all. I just think about the hurt, and the other person may be
>unaware it is there. Recently, I have begun to express to others how I
>feel. God has given us a wonderful gift of words, a gift that has such
>power. Godused words to create a whole universe from nothing, He took away
>the darkness bysaying "light be", and we too have power, with our words we
>can angrily tell another just what we think, an outburst of angry words may
>make us feel better, but it doesn't resolve anything. I think that if we
>are to learn to "love one another", we have to learn how to talk, or asthey
>say in my classes at college, communicate our feelings, and needs to
>tothers.
>I think that sometimes God puts us in situations where we are pushed so to
>speak, we then have to decide whether to try and speak"the truth in love" or
>say nothing and remain hurt. I think all of us need to learn how to get
>along with others, how to disagree with out being disagreeable, and how to
>love someone who doesn't think just exactly as we do.
>It is a scary thing to try and tell someone else we feel hurt, or are angry,
>but how can they know if we do not say. Hurt feelings and angry feelings
>only turn to bitterness and unforgiveness if kept locked away.
>I was just thinking... and praying that Icould continue to learn how to
>truly "love others"
>Rhonda
John
How do you call a fly without wings ? A walk !
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