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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Gosse" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Linda" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:12 AM
Subject: The Word For Today: Satuday February 24th


> "A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT DOES WONDERS!" ( PROVERBS 12:25 TLB )
>
>                         HELPING "HURTING PEOPLE"
>
>   Ask yourself, "Do I hurt people, or am I easily hurt by them?" Then 
> consider these trughts:
>  (1) Hurting people hurt other people. The German poet Herman Hesse wrote: 
> "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. 
> What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." Hurting people lash out 
> in response to what's happening inside them. They feel or believe 
> something negative within themselves. Try to remember that.
>  (2) Hurting people are more often hurt by people. Let's say you've a 
> splinter in your finger and it becomes infected. Then someone brushes 
> against it. You howl with pain, "You hurt me!" No, the real problem is the 
> splinter you neglected to address. Hurting people over react, over 
> exaggerate, and over portect. They also over influence. Ask any counselor 
> who's dealt with a hurting couple. Emotionally one spouse "throws up," the 
> the other "cleans up." Usually the individual with the most pain does the 
> most damage.
>  (3) Quick fixes don't work. The kindest thing you can do for hurting 
> people is ask them, "Are you prepared to work through the issues and get 
> beyond your pain?" When a New England pipe cleaning company was working 
> under the streets to clean our a sewer line, they found: sixty-one diamond 
> rings, vintage coins and silverware. It was an unpleasant job-but they 
> were allowed to keep the valuables they discovered in the process! Now, 
> you may have to do some digging and deal with some pretty nasty stuff, but 
> in the process you may discover some treasures you didn't know existed, 
> and at the end of all your hard work, develop some healthy relationships.
>
>
>
>  Linda("The Prayerwarrior/Angel") (\o/)
>  email: [log in to unmask]
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