Community Musings

Does anyone (besides me) ever look at different people and catalog the differences in how they treat you and the things they say to you?

I seem to do that often, with both men and women, because at the basis of every relationship is a friendship, right? So, for me, my women friends count in this too. I’ve made some new friends recently and it is a good thing.  I love sharing with these and other people I’ve known longer (although some seem to feel I am unable to think or do for myself sometimes), even though I don’t always open up about the same things to all of them. Sometimes you have to trust your gut on what to say to who and when.

I’m not saying that I am judging people on this, but merely noticing when someone is genuine vs fake towards me. Or kind vs cruel. When people are the latter towards me, I tend to refrain from trying to know them better in some way, because I want to protect myself from being hurt or used.

In dealing with some of the hurt I experienced over the last year, I have begun to compare the individual who caused that pain to another who is far more genuine and honest. The differences are vast and so noticable.

I have noticed that as I open up more, people open up more to me, which helps to create a sense of community and unity. As my tasks get fewer in one area, I see them growing in another. What is the saying? When God closes a door, He opens a window?

In some ways, He is opening several that I can see which is infinitely different than in the past. I could have also missed some windows through my own stubbornness and blindness, and belief in my own ability to do things my way. That never really worked out well for me. In some ways, I am thankful for that, because it has taught me that I cannot rely on me, or that I have created problems where there really are none.

John 17:20-24 (NASB)

²⁰ “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; ²¹ that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

²² The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; ²³ I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. ²⁴ Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

 

 

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