“Ask God for grace not to run away, but to keep engaging in love that hard-to-love person.” By God’s grace, we too can keep loving the difficult people God has placed in our lives. The easy thing is to cut the troublesome person out of your life when possible, or just avoid them at best.
But what happens when the person refuses to leave your life? I have hired two agencies to deal with "damage control". And there will be litigation as the permanent injunction has been violated. Her sadness, her depression, her bad behavior, her mental illness will no longer serve her and her excuses. I feel bad that she has stayed "stuck in a rut" over a decade. I know that I am not! I have moved forward into a new world, new ambitions, new accomplishments even though she will deny it and continue in her gossip and inuendo. I understand her innate need to spoof telephone numbers, to call people that she thinks will do her dirty work for her, to write letters. The lack of class in a woman.
I ask God every day to soften my heart towards this person; to put off anger and irritability. I have put on a veil of meekness and kindness in an attempt to understand this woman's struggles and meet her with compassion. (Colossians 3:12-14)
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