Journal Planesdragon's Journal: Burnt Bridges, Mending Fences 7
Well, I guess I'm just randomly musing here now.
I found an ex-friend on the web and I got to thinking about , as the song says, 'all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged.'
It's not the army, it's not having a child, but I have affected the lives of people around me, and though a good fourth of them will never speak to me again, at least they're all more or less happier than they were when I met them.
*sigh*. Ah, well.
Hey, no sighing! You're a happily married man! Just because no agent has bought you book yet (and your Q#$@ing website's down) is no reason to go moping about!
What? But I want to sigh! You can't tell me what to do! You're not the boss of me!
Ah, er... well, whatever. Enough rambling for now. I'll post some more in a comment.
Christian compulsion to mend fences (Score:1)
Then, I picked up the darn bible, and read a bit more. I stumbled upon Acts 13, especially verse 51. "But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium." (The "them" in context are jews working against Paul. Go read the chapter for yourself.) This, of course, is a reference to Christ's orders to the apostles
Re:Christian compulsion to mend fences (Score:2)
I once parted ways with a good friend who had... troubles. She was a good person, but I've come to believe that she may have been a compulsive liar, subconsciously able to convince herself on the spot that a number of tall, unverifiable-but-undeniable tales were true. Parting ways was hard. Not just for me and her, but also for another mutual friend who had been friends with her much longer than I had.
The thing is, I remember something told me by a very smart man in the ministry busine
Re:Christian compulsion to mend fences (Score:1)
Remember to check the plank in your own eye also. Perhaps the breaking of the friendship was because of your own hard heartedness.
Good luck with the situation.
As far as it depends on you (Score:1)
TTISTW? What's that mean? "The trouble is, some things work?"
I'd have to concur with the general consensus here that you can only do so much. Specifically, you are responsible for your actions, but not for someone else's. As Paul wrote in Romans 12:17-18 (although admittedly in slightly different circumstances, I still think it may apply here):
[Regarding responsibility for your own actions:]
17. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. [But you
Re:As far as it depends on you (Score:2)
"This Too Is The War." My own take on the somewhat sophmoric "spiritual warfare" breed of Christianity.
In a nutshell: If life is a battle (war) between good and evil, then every moment of every day is part of that struggle, and thus has a purpose.
What's your book about?
It's a fantasy novel about a woman who has lost everything and still manages to stand up for herself. (I've got a much better description, but it's at home.)
Intersting
broken friendships (Score:1)
I guess the best thing to do would be to go over with yourself what exactly caused the breakup. Usually, someone is straining the relationship somewhere that causes it to break. Sometimes, there may be something else that has made the relationship difficult and added to the tension.
I had a very close friend from grade school th