Very good points. Proverbs helps us out with all that too. Stuff like a
harsh word bring wrath and etc. Think of the three men with the talents. A
couple risked what they had to invest for increase, and one just buried it
away to only remain with what he started with. How much poorer would we be
if we buried our emotions and thoughts, rather than investing them into the
care of those they involve. Sometimes we lose them or they come back
damaged, and sometimes they are blessed by others and an increase is shared
by both parties.

Brad

Life has it's problems, we do well to not be one.


At 01/15/2004 on Thursday, you 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