Reality Check.

Not everyone will like you.

DEAL WITH IT.

I was trying to get an afternoon nap and this topic came to mind – so here I am! People often associate being a Christian with being a people pleaser or being a “yes-man” and it is not so.

“But let your yes be yes and your no be no” (Matt 5:37)

You don’t always have to do what others want you to do. You don’t always have to be who others want you to be either. Be who God wants you to be. Stop trying to please everyone!

Live at peace with all men, as far as it depends on you, but don’t go bending over backwards to please someone or dash your morals out of the nearest window either. Bill and Melinda Gates might be one of the world’s greatest philanthropists and yet there is most definitely someone that dislikes them and refuses to buy a Microsoft product. Does that stop them from being über-rich? Someone else will buy that laptop and the Gates’ lives will continue as normal.

So what’s the moral of this post? Do your best to live right, but if someone still doesn’t like you don’t sit their being baffled or get upset, after all, even Jesus had haters.

xo

Hurt.

Hurt.

Hi.

Welcome Back.

Today I want to write about something that is on my mind, which has tentacles that reached down and pricked my heart.

Betrayal.

I know the scripture, “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone”. (Romans 12:18), and like every other commandment in the bible, I adhere to it as much as I possibly can. You know one thing I love about God? He UNDERSTANDS. He knows there will be people that just don’t want to live at peace with others, and He beautifully made that clause for the kind of situation that I want to write about today.

Being betrayed is one of the feelings in this life that cannot be fully described with mere words. It eats deep down, past your flesh, down into your soul. Betrayal can birth the most nasty of characteristics within a person – it’s that powerful.

Funny thing about being betrayed is that the pain it inflicts upon you is only equal to how much power you feed it. You may not be able to stop the person from betraying you but you can control how much you will be affected by it.

Yes, it hurts, it hurts a whole lot and more, but you mustn’t give into the negativity it breeds. Do not let someone else’s actions turn you into something you aren’t.

My advice: Don’t sweat it. They chose to hurt you –their loss. You my friend have just escaped one wolf in sheep’s clothing without trying – that’s one less wasted invitation to your success party eh? J

xo