This week has been hard. I am burdened for several friends struggling with a variety of things. I want to be that friend who will listen and not judge, a friend who will bear others’ burdens as we’re told to do in Gal. 6:2. I have nothing to offer except Jesus and what He is teaching me. I feel so inadequate as I hear people share the deep waters they are going through. I guess that’s a good place to be (feeling inadequate) so that anything good that comes from me can only be attributed to Him! (But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ…” Gal. 6:14a) What a God we serve who chooses to use us in spite of our failures! I am learning so much as I walk with Greg through this time.
Today I was faced with my ugly heart once again. I responded to Greg with a remark that I meant to be a joke but was inappropriate as it threw his betrayal up in his face again. When he shared how it made him feel, I was so angry. After all I have had to deal with and forgive, you get to tell me how I hurt you by a “remark”?? God help me!! Well, He did! It took a bit for us to talk through it but we did, unlike in the past when we would just drop it but never deal with it. I am so sad that I responded to Greg that way when he shared how my comment made him feel. While it may be understandable, it certainly is not how Christ calls us to respond when we hurt someone EVEN WHEN THEY’VE HURT US! I have so far to go in my walk with Him. Praise God that we can be confident that He who has begun a good work in us will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ! (Phil. 1:6)

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