So I wrote something last July and didn't finish, so it was sitting in the draft for a year. I read it back and thought I should finish it and publish this for memory.
Sometimes we tend to forget the simplest things.
Like having faith.
Some would argue that it's not an easy thing at all.
To have faith is to believe in something that you can't see, touch, or measure...
How to believe when there's no proof?
How to trust that everything will be good?
How to know if things will get better?
Nope. I don't have the answer to all of it too.
But what I know is that if you just have a little faith, think positive, be diligent, be obedient... Things will fall into place.
You reap what you sow.
It reminds me of one of my favorite verses, Matthew 7:17-18 which says:
"Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit." -NIV
Of course, in these verses, Jesus actually was talking about how to recognize a false prophet. But we can also see it as the tree is our "body/mind", and the fruits are the "outcome/consequences".
Our actions affect the outcome.
Others reactions are part of our own doing too. So sometimes we just need to look at what we did that results in us to produce the reaction, the outcome that perhaps will make others feel certain ways, good or bad.
It's easy to put the blame on others, assuming and accusing them, rather than take a step back and think about why they behave the way they did.
Sometimes, maybe we are the problem. We just didn't see it ourselves.
We definitely cannot control how others feel or react, but we certainly can control ourselves. Of course, we can also argue that they too, cannot control how we feel and react.
It takes a lot of compromise and patience to communicate. I always believe that good communication is, to be honest and truthful.
If we have good intentions, things won't go wrong, and those intentions (good or bad), only you will know.
