Good morning! Kind of a lazy start to this Saturday, I have accomplished next to nothing so far this morning. I am still writing this live each morning. I suspect that many devotional writers do not do this on a daily basis, but rather sit down to write up several in a day, perhaps a week's worth at a time. I still like to sit down each morning and write what I feel called to write about. Anyhoo, that is neither here nor there. Someone used that phrase on one of my coworkers yesterday to excuse some poor planning. It hurts when you must rush to do something because another person or department failed to communicate in a timely manner. While such trite phrases as "neither here nor there" can be painful to hear, especially when no apology is forthcoming, that does make a good point. When the problem is upon you, parceling out the blame is probably not going to solve anything. In this world, we are going to find ourselves hurt by other people in ways that are both frustrating and disheartening. Jesus told us that the world hated him first, and we see the effects of that in our daily lives. Some times that other person is not out to "get" us, but is simply a person with many cares and duties of his or her own. Blame is easy to point that finger, but sometimes we simply need to forgive and move into the solution phase. Forgiveness may help the person doing the forgiving more than it helps the person doing the hurting. Certainly when the person doing the hurting is not repentant or contrite, we need to forgive to avoid taking harm from that hurt.
God bless you on this fine weekend in Christ!
Bucky
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