I so identify with your posts on this topic. And I love your tagline.
I tried to clear up something with someone who hurt me a few years ago. For my effort in trying to clear it up, the situation was made even worse.
There are some people I just have to separate from.I’ve had to do that only 3 times in my life. One was a childhood friend I knew for 40 years. The most recent are 2 in-laws.
For some I have to say “I am a Christian but I am not a doormat.” The most recent incident was as you wrote “motivated by deep malice,,,with severe and undeserved consequences.” People who hurt the innocent like that should be prayed for, but I don’t think God requires us to lie down and get walked on all over again.
Some scripture on this topic...
Matthew 6:14 “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”
Isaiah 43:18-19 “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth.”
Philippians 3:13 “But this one thing I do, forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.”
Thanks for your comments. If I still had to deal with the woman, I would kick her out of my life. Fortunately I don’t. And as a matter of fact, my life is much better as a result of what she did.
But it was the blessings of God, and the support of my family, and my own efforts that did it. That does not negate her malice
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