7th September 2014

How do you React?

When you read the paper or watch the T.V how do your react? When people say or do something to you which you don’t like, how do you react?

Jesus in the Gospels gives us a model of how we should live and behave as Christians. This is often of course, different from how people or indeed ourselves often behave.

It’s something that we can’t take for granted if we take our faith seriously. It doesn’t happen by magic. Yes God can help us, but we need to make the effort.

One person used to keep their reminder on her wall, to help her.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered,
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives,
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you,
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous,
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow,
Be good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it may never be enough,
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end it is between you and God,
It is never between you and them anyway.

These words were on the wall of Blessed Mother Theresa Of Calcutta. If she needed such a constant reminder and they helped her, maybe it will be of some help to us.