Yes! As a matter of fact on this past mother’s day, I was terribly disappointed with one of 4 sisters for making a false remark to another sister which caused hurt feelings and affected 2 of the four who are all adults and up in age as grandmothers. The terrible thing about the fiasco reminded me of an old game where one makes a statement and is repeated from one person to another. By the time it returns to the original person who actually started the game with whatever was originally said, it becomes a fiasco of misunderstanding and statement that was not even said to begin with and leaves 2 of the 4 sister’s feelings hurt. The one thing that I was glad about this incident, it was recorded on a video that could be seen and heard. The video was put in every room of the house except for the 2 bathrooms for 2 reasons. One, for the purpose of observing our 95 year old mother who suffers from alzheimer’s and second for observing one sister, myself, also living in the house who is a type one diabetic to ensure she doesn’t suffer an insulin reaction and pass out. Sadly enough as things go, by the time the statement got back to the sister who originally made the comment, me, which was not bad nor insulting in anyway fashion nor form. Naturally as it sometimes happens, the misconstrued statement was taken out of content and feelings for 2 of the four sisters were hurt. I could only request the sister who was most crushed to watch and observe the video so as to clear any misunderstandings in hopes to restore the respect of the sister whose feelings were most offended by something that was never said to begin with. This was my day! I too was hurt by the false statement that I did not say! Life goes on , and I tried to do my part by apologizing that my comment was never meant to insult nor harm my sister that was actually trying to help me with a problem of my cell phone. Something so simple that turned into something so ruthless. Now I feel saddened by it all. So much for a Happy Mother’s Day!
I'm so sorry your Mother's Day did not go anything like you planned. I'm sorry it was filled with hurt and frustration. Sometimes, even when there are apologies, the hurt still lingers. I pray that there will be healing.
I feel blessed to know that I have the Lord to turn to when I feel so disheartened over the events plaguing our world. In His Word, we can find so much peace and encouragement when we're feeling overwhelmed with sadness. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Karen for the encouraging word today. Your devotion is just what I needed to read this morning as I awakened to a new day and all that is going on in our world. So glad to know this is not the end.
Amen! Come Lord Jesus, come! 🙏. I pray for strength as we all keep fighting the good fight of Faith and keep our lanterns full. We do have a lot to look forward to! ❤️
Yes! As a matter of fact on this past mother’s day, I was terribly disappointed with one of 4 sisters for making a false remark to another sister which caused hurt feelings and affected 2 of the four who are all adults and up in age as grandmothers. The terrible thing about the fiasco reminded me of an old game where one makes a statement and is repeated from one person to another. By the time it returns to the original person who actually started the game with whatever was originally said, it becomes a fiasco of misunderstanding and statement that was not even said to begin with and leaves 2 of the 4 sister’s feelings hurt. The one thing that I was glad about this incident, it was recorded on a video that could be seen and heard. The video was put in every room of the house except for the 2 bathrooms for 2 reasons. One, for the purpose of observing our 95 year old mother who suffers from alzheimer’s and second for observing one sister, myself, also living in the house who is a type one diabetic to ensure she doesn’t suffer an insulin reaction and pass out. Sadly enough as things go, by the time the statement got back to the sister who originally made the comment, me, which was not bad nor insulting in anyway fashion nor form. Naturally as it sometimes happens, the misconstrued statement was taken out of content and feelings for 2 of the four sisters were hurt. I could only request the sister who was most crushed to watch and observe the video so as to clear any misunderstandings in hopes to restore the respect of the sister whose feelings were most offended by something that was never said to begin with. This was my day! I too was hurt by the false statement that I did not say! Life goes on , and I tried to do my part by apologizing that my comment was never meant to insult nor harm my sister that was actually trying to help me with a problem of my cell phone. Something so simple that turned into something so ruthless. Now I feel saddened by it all. So much for a Happy Mother’s Day!
I'm so sorry your Mother's Day did not go anything like you planned. I'm sorry it was filled with hurt and frustration. Sometimes, even when there are apologies, the hurt still lingers. I pray that there will be healing.
We are just passing through this word to the next...
Thankfully! Soon, all this won't matter anymore!
Thank you, Kate! I continue to hold fast to God's Hand every single day. Nothing else will do.
Me too, that's all we can do! Thanks for reading and commenting!
Very good word🙏🏻
I feel blessed to know that I have the Lord to turn to when I feel so disheartened over the events plaguing our world. In His Word, we can find so much peace and encouragement when we're feeling overwhelmed with sadness. Thanks for sharing.
Well said!
Thanks, Karen for the encouraging word today. Your devotion is just what I needed to read this morning as I awakened to a new day and all that is going on in our world. So glad to know this is not the end.
The world accurately described here, Kate. Our challenge is to keep the faith and be a light in the dark world.
That's right, we keep encouraging each other to keep our lights bright!
Thank you that s encouraging word.
The Bible says encourage each other with these words and boy do we need it!
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Amen! Come Lord Jesus, come! 🙏. I pray for strength as we all keep fighting the good fight of Faith and keep our lanterns full. We do have a lot to look forward to! ❤️
That's right, we have to keep going and encouraging each other! Your writing encourages me!
❤️. Ditto!