I used to love to recite "If" by Rudyard Kipling. I had a framed copy in my childhood bedroom and I memorized everything. But one line, kept me interested, "If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat these two imposters just the same." These words have proved to be so true in my life. As I have been thinking about resolutions for the new year, and what I needed to do, I have had a surge of good and bad news. I am coping with both.
On Friday I went out to lunch with Debbie Bickings and Bev Hickam and we ate and then went to Bev's to exchange presents. I could not help but say a prayer of thanks for these two who have been at my side for so many years --good times and bad times.
Then last night I talked to Harriett Goodin Small for an hour and we talked about so much bad news--Rosalie is so sick; so is Margie Jones and Carolyn Howlett--people who have been in my lives so long. Harriett told me that Lisa Warren had come to the store and told her about Lisa, Jamee and Joker running into Bill Stacy in Cape on Wednesday and Lisa told Harriett that she wasn't going to tell me because she thought I would be bothered by it. I laughed, without laughing, and told Harriett that Lisa had smeared the whole incident on FB (which she knew I was on). This is hard to believe that anyone would do this for any reason except to hurt me--even Mark Stacy says there is no other reason.
Things like this get you when they come from one's kinsmen. In spite of all the worry and suffering one has in this life, there are many things that should not have to be suffered. Sometimes they cause the biggest emotional problems in one's suffering! Why would one member of a family deliberately cause inner turmoil for another? Turn the other cheek, the Scripture says, but how does a person learn to do this without being wounded! I think often that churches and families are known for feeling that it is their duty to shoot their wounded!
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