Posted on 05/24/2009 11:10:34 AM PDT by restornu
Excerpts from Cankers of the Soul- Soul Talkin
Some time back, an acquaintaince I had once helped in her time of need took a vicious potshot at me.I should have dismissed it as the desperate whiplash of a soul tormented by jealousy and frustration, but the poisonous shaft struck a raw nerve. And the pain was augmented by a sense of betrayal.
I wasn't sure if retailation would quell the rage within, but every cell in my body wanted to hit back as viciously.I was convinced that nothing but the sight of my enemy fallen low would assuage the pain inside.
Although in reality, anger and my thirst for revenge would have only ravaged my spirit and in all probability, derailed my life. For pain like fire can either consume or temper.
It can bequeath us with humility, grace and an appreciation for the blessings in our lives and spur us on to achieve greatness. Or it can erode the largess of the spirit within, sap it of passion and destroy our ability to dream.
Fortunately for me,after my umpteenth crib session, a good friend sensed that I was getting a little obsessive and sat me down for some plain speaking.
She did not ask me to forgive nor did she urge me to move on. But instead, she drew upon facts to sketch for me an image of a desperately unhappy person, who was hitting out because she wanted so much from life but had not the faculties to realise her dreams.
And then, she posed a few questions to me: What could one possibly expect from a bitter, envious soul than anger and venom?
Why transform myself into a spitting image of this unhappy virago, when I had so much more to look forward to?
And most importantly, how much of my time and energy was I squandering in dreaming of ways and means of retaliation?
She got her points through loud and clear. And the reality check was just what was needed to bring me back to earth with a bump.
At the end of our intense conversation, my anger miraculously faded away leaving in its wake, pity and a sense of immense relief.
My walk in the shoes of the offender brought home a clear understanding of the environment she came from, its impact on her psyche and granted me greater insights into the cankers of her soul.
It also freed my heart of its burden,ironed the frowns from my brow and set my spirit free to once again roam through green pastures in pursuit of its dreams.
As someone once said, the greater your capacity to love, the greater is your capacity to feel pain but while pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Bitterness is always an expensive emotion and should be shed as soon as it is recognized.
It takes much and gives nothing.
It’s hard when one day you think you’re convinced you have all the answers and the next day you realize everything you thought you knew was bullspit.
Its hard when one day you think youre convinced you have all the answers and the next day you realize everything you thought you knew was bullspit.
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Rom. 8
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
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That’s a good scripture to describe my situation with an anti once...
She was an Anti-Christian...a mormon...
First i ever met...
She was so full of venom against Christianity that when a friend of mine invited her to church, she
1. ordered our mutual boss to fire ME
2. destroyed my stuff
3. treated me like a dog
When our boss would not fire me, she finally left..
My boss then called me in and asked me what had been happening for weeks...
I told her what I had put up with..
She asked me why I had not told on the other girl...
I said I was a Christian and I had just prayed...
My boss explained what she was, a mormon. and warned me against that unGodly belief...
The mormon had been proslytising our boss for weeks and the boss had kept telling her NO...
She told me what the mormons AKA church of jesus christ of the latter day saints mbelieve..
The boss was a Christian and none of what the mormon girl had to say fit in with any Bible scriptures or Christian teaching...
My boss explained that the first complaint fronm the girl was the invitation to church..
That’s the first time the mormon girl had ordered her to fire me..
That got my attention about the cult called mormonism...
So at the age of 19, I knew that mormonism is not true...
I thank my God I turned to him in my time of need and didnt retaliate back at that poor twisted mormon girl..
In all my 60 years, she is the only one who ever went to that abusive extreme because someone asked her to church...
The King Follett Sermon - Part One
The King Follett Sermon - Part Two
You know there is stuff that you can buy at Target for those cankers of yours.
Good Resource post Grey!
BTTT!
Anti-Christian bump
Bitterness is always an expensive emotion and should be shed as soon as it is recognized.
It takes much and gives nothing.
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Sadly but true it seems the hardest thing for some to do is to keep the Lord’s Commandment
1 Jn. 4: 7, 11-12
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
John 13: 34-35
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Thank you for posting all that..
It’s great info...
In the future when you have post this long, could you please not ping me to the post but ping me with the number to go to to read the post? Your post filled my ping page in such a way that it was difficult to find other pings awaiting responses.
Thank you, m’Lady.
So you feel the love also ???
:)
Oh my!
What a pleasant way to start this thread.
A classic example of projection IMO>
Let me tell you my experience which is similar to what happened to the person that wrote this sad story.
I had a friend for years. Stayed in their house and worked on conservative causes together for years with her and her husband.
Went to many events that they also attended, and we always got a long fine.
One day she took a vicious pot shot at me (on a Religion discussion thread here) , accused me of doing something that I had never done and publicly called me out for this imagined slight on my part.
We both post on this website, and I never knew her religious affiliation for years.
I watched the Mormon threads for months and months, and then decided to post on them because I had studied the LDS religion for years.
Have all the books (old ones, and new "abridged" ones) and read various pro and con arguments from both sides.
One day I decided to post some facts about the LDS church from their own writings, and also some opinions of my own about the organization.
Never in a mean or hateful way, just facts and what I had learned from my studies.
Then one day on a thread here at FR, this friend (we are still friends) posted to me something like this.
A simple sentence, "Why do you hate Mormons?"
I was completely taken aback as I NEVER posted anything that could be considered hate towards the LDS church or any of it's members, only facts and opinions in a most polite way.
It was several days until I could bring myself to answer because of the shock of her assessment of my feelings which was so misguided.
But from reading and posting on threads about the LDS church, I found so much hate and bitterness towards any one that questioned the validity of that church, and also towards those that posted writings from their OWN LDS teachings that show the many un-Biblical beliefs that the Mormons hold to.
It's interesting how you praise the writer of this piece, when she felt like "every cell in my body wanted to hit back as viciously" to the person that offended her.
I never felt that way towards the person that falsely accuse me of hate, only empathy and pity that someone could be so filled with anger towards me for just posting facts and my opinions on the LDS church after my years of research and study.
Thank goodness this writer had a friend to sit her down and talk some sense into her before she viciously lashed out at her acquaintance.
After reading your first statement on this thread, I hope you have a friend like this writer.
How ironic that that should be the first post of this thread.
What’s the old saying...when you point at someone, remember there are four fingers pointing back at you.
Irony is what the LDS is all about...
Actually, three fingers and a thumb. :-)
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