
Jesus taught it isn’t how we are treated or what is said to us that matters, those things will most assuredly happen, it’s how we react that matters. Try seeing yourself and others through that lens. Be self aware intently for a time. When someone triggers you, however your instant reaction is, stop, remain quiet, no gestures, examine it, think it through. Recall past words, gestures, responses when you were proud of yourself and when you weren’t. Did someone, or something get the “best of you”, and actually brought out the worst of you. So, so many times in the 27 letters, we read the words of Jesus, Him teaching, preaching, counseling, advocating us that it isn’t what happens TO us that matters, it is how we REACT that does. Why did he say that so often? Want examples, I’ve got plenty, read on. This is part one, part two coming soon.
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