Resentment

Have you notice the beauty of the spring? How many trees full of gorgeous flowers and the tiny leafs stating to bloom? What about the nice singing of the birds? Last night I wake up in the middle of the night with the bright lightning going on in my backyard, and even that can be scary was really pretty too.

I was talking with someone, and he was telling me how he does not like one person from his family because past bad experiences with that family member. I call that resentment. Resentment is equal to pain, unhappiness, reduce of patient, and many others unpleasant feelings. I look the definition of resentment and found that resentment is “to feel bitter, indignant, or aggrieved at” You know what is worse? Resentment is just like love can grow with time.

Lets make an example; let say that you have a pretty garden, where love is you flowers, and bushes. The resentment is your weed. Usually, when we have weed in our gardens we need to kill them. We have to cut them from the roots so they don’t grow again. That is what we need to do with our resentment cut it from the roots to prevent to keep growing and expand in our hearts.

The best way to cut resentment from the root is with forgiveness.  I know is hard and painful forgiving someone that hurt us. But think this way, the other person probably does not even know that you are mad at him or her and is living “happily ever after” and you are here with a big resentment that is making you a bitter person. Just talk with that person or forgive that person and move on. In this we have to be like kids. This is one of the many reasons kids are better than adults. Young kids get mad to each other and latter they are playing like nothing happened.  I saw that when my kids were like 4 and 5 years old.  Probably doing that you will start noticing the beauty of the blooming season!

Ephesians 4:31-32

³¹ Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. ³² Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Happy Weekend,

Big Hug,

MRM