For Day 12, we were to meditate and practice on this: "Give in. Lent is not just a time to give up. Real repentance may mean giving in, to someone else, admitting they were right. Or that you were also right, but in this case, they just needed it more."
I have to admit I hate being wrong. I also hate to face the fact that I am often wrong. And even when I'm right, sometimes even then, I'm wrong. So this one, my friends, is for me. And it something I have been right about and wrong about all my life.
One question that I ask myself these days is, "Would you rather be right or would your rather be happy." I tell myself that being right is not always that important. Sometimes the relationship is more important. Sometimes the situation will not improve by proving you are right. The truth will out. All will become apparent. In the meantime, being wrong may be the right thing to do at times.
So I repent. I give in. I surrender to the higher good of all concerned. At the risk of sounding like I am nominating myself for sainthood, I can hold my tongue when the situation calls for it. I truly believe every has their own truth. Who am I to think I have they only truth? Okay, I am getting off this high horse. Truth is, I am not fond of confrontation. And I figure the truth will, indeed, come out in the end.
And I could be wrong. But I might be right.
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