Seeing Others as Wrong (TMF:1928)

Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Peace to Live By: Seeing Others as Wrong (TMF:1928) - Daniel Litton
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       Faith is being utilized when even though we may not agree with what the person is saying (and even if it is wrong), that regardless the person is a person worth our time and acceptance. Faith is used when we cannot really see it ourselves, but trust that everything is okay regardless. It’s easy to want to see others as wrong, and we ourselves in the right. It can be easy to not be willing to learn from others, assuming that we already know all the answers. When people do in fact criticize us, this can be an opportunity for us to really consider what they have said, to see if there is anything we can learn from the criticism. We often don’t want to admit it, but more often than not there is truth in what people say against us, and there may be something that we could do better if we considered a different way of going about it. Now, people do criticize us out of sheer jealously, just because they don’t like us succeeding where they are not. In those cases, what we learn is about them, not about us. It can also be easier to forgive a person for their criticism when we realize that it is indeed coming from an underlying envy.