The Love that releases us from hurt
This experience challenged me to let go of self-righteousness, to love someone who seemed to hate me, and to look higher and grow closer to God.
An acquaintance, whom I’d met only a few times, had confronted me and accused me of deeply hurting their feelings by things they thought I had said. As I listened to their complaints about me and my character, I was dumbfounded. Each accusation was based on a comment taken out of context and used against me to suggest something completely different from what I know to be true about me.
As a student of the Bible, I am actively alert to abiding by the guidance of the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. I genuinely try to be respectful and loving to everyone, so these accusations from someone who didn’t even know me well were shocking and very hurtful. I’ll admit, I knew it wasn’t a happy or healthy mindset, but I wallowed in these hurt feelings for a few days, unhappy and feeling misunderstood.
During this time, I was so grateful for the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, which that week included the opening verses of Psalm 139: “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways” (verses 1–3).
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