(I am traveling to a grief retreat. This post is from the archives. New posts will
resume next week.)
John asked about the connection
between bitterness and compassion. After thinking about it for a week, I still
have few conclusions. What I do have are random thoughts.
Bitterness is a bale of
barbed wire. We wrap it around us and it protects us from getting hurt again by
life. It also keeps the world from getting in.
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I think it interesting that people usually pair the words bitterness, anger, reaentment, and unforgiveness together. To me, bitterness is something always directed at someone, that keeps us from forgiving them. I've felt it for the doctors who couldn't save my wife from cancer, people close to us who stopped calling me, and even at God. I had to reach a point where I knew that my bitterness was only hurting me, and that the only way to healing was forgiveness.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Rick.
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