OUCH!! ~ and WOW....... as in *THANK YOU* for posting
that..... having had an ordeal with my neighbors (at one time
one of my best friends) but she *kicked up her heel against me*
and now we are bitter enemies (well, I wouldn't go that far.....
but simply will never talk again..... her choice..... and over
THEE STUPIDEST thing, too!!) How she misinterpreted
something & instead of talking it out -- just decided I was
*dead* to her & her family..... easy for me to get bitter
.... when I think of all we had shared & moreover, *all I
had DONE for her*!! I had tried to be a really good
friend to her, though I felt it was not reciprocal.
At any rate, after all we've been through -- her 13 y/o
grandson (who started this whole mess to begin with!!)
still has the nerve to come play ball in our yard!!
May not sound like a big thing -- but is, considering all we've
been through & how we've got screens busted,
etc. And how we've asked him to not play here - that
this is OUR YARD!! ~ not a playground.... not a park....
I must set those boundaries (because no one else will!!) ~
yet I'll aim to do it in a much more pleasant way than was
originally stirring in my heart & mind.....
Thanks to your post, Clifford! Thanks for sharing that!
I realized how I was becoming: hate-filled, angry.....
HURT (b/c of the friendship that went south) ..... and very,
very resentful (a.k.a. *bitter*) A way I do
NOT wish to be!!...... esp. in these last days as are to pray to
be accounted *worthy* to escape (the Tribulation) & to stand
before the Son of Man. I do not want to stand before
Him ~ with all that black sludge in my heart!!!
So I'll report for *foot washing* today..... and confess my
sins that He may forgive me & cleanse me from ALL
unrighteousness!!
~ in Jesus' precious & HOLY name!!
Amen!!