May 09 2008

Bearing an Offense

Published by Molly Friesen at 9:25 am under General Peacemaking

At World Magazine’s blog, Andree Seu has some great words about how much she was blessed by a friend’s recent approach to a way that she had offended him.  Rather than respond immediately out of his pain, he “refrained from telling me my offense until he could deal with it sufficiently in his own heart to avoid sending me a hurtful letter.”

I love the lesson she drew from it:

In order to pull off that soul transaction, he had to suck up the pain himself, take on my debt himself rather than handing me the bill.

It’s short; take a minute to read the whole thing!

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