>>You keep saying we hate each other’s ways. I don’t feel that way. I have no room for hate anymore. It consumes you. I only want Christ and His love to consume me.<<
I feel the same way. I want my words and actions to show it. Which is why I’m going to try very hard to look at the words and not the motivations and not take it personally.
We are only hurt by our own expectations. If I expect to be offended, I will be. It happened yesterday. I poster that I’ve had a run in with (not on this forum) said something funny, and I took it wrong. I was wrong, not the other poster. My bad!
I’ve done that before, too. And it does make you feel bad!
I think it’s certainly true that folks who expect to be offended are likely to be offended.
And some folks seem to feed off of offense as a major energizing part of their life.