Teaching

Happy New Year 2013 to everyone! It had been a productive, learning, with ups and down year, but we made it and even pass the 2012 “end of the world” I guess is time to reflection of what we need to improve, who we need to help, what new challenge we have to face, and what new thing we can learn. Time for new resolutions or rollover the one that we did not finish last year (lose weight!). Time to keep looking what is God purpose in this world for us, if we don’t know yet. Time to forgive and be forgiven. Is a really good time for start a lot of new and exited things in our lives, but don’t forget that everything will happened in God’s time we want it or not (I am learning really hard that lesson).

I do not get tired of telling my kids; treat others how you want to be treated. I try to understand why people are so mean with others, what is the point? Teach them a lesson? There is good ways of teach a lesson and bad ways too. I believe that the best way to teach a lesson is with examples, with love, and with compassion, perhaps that was not the way Jesus taught us?

It is easy to lose temper, it is easier ignore, make feel bad, call names, yell, and despise other. It is hard to take control of our emotions and feelings, it is hard to give our arm to turn in favor of others, but in reality that is our main task in this world. It is the main task that God ask us, love each other, and still it is so hard for parents teach their kids with love, friends, couples, siblings, coworkers, why it is so hard to teach and help each others with love?

I know that is hard to teach with love specially to the one that hurt us, but that is exactly the ones that God want us to teach and help. God knows that there will be times that we will fail this task, we are not perfect, but the most important thing is that we recognize it and try to make it better next time. I believe that this is a good time to set up a new goal and challenge for us this year, teach with love and patience specially to the one that hurt us. Let see what happen…

1 Peter 4:8-10

⁸ Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ⁹ Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. ¹⁰ Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.

Big Hug,
MRM