Friday, February 1, 2008

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What do you do when someone dislikes/resents you? Do you ask for forgiveness...or pray for God to allow you to forgive them for disliking you? Or both? I think usually we just stop associating with that person and move on.

What if it's a close family member?

Maybe this is just practice for if I ever have teenage children of my own; if it is, I don't think I do well with family disliking & resenting me, and I'll be in trouble then.

Jesus declared new siblings and parents for himself; somehow I don't think that's the model he had in mind for us.

So what do we do? How do we reconcile within ourselves an irreconcilable relationship?

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