One of the worst mistakes I have made is to accept poor treatment from others as retribution for my poor decisions.
I figured that I deserved to be disrespected and humiliated as payback for my sins. I felt payback was necessary for healing and reconciliation. I justified it as necessary to help me make better decisions going forward. But I was wrong.
People do not need much of a nudge to treat you poorly. They do because you accept it – willingly or unwillingly.
I met people that cracked my iron clad theory of cause and effect. They treated me with respect no matter the circumstance. Their respect for me was not built on my actions, but on their values. I felt undeserving and I let them go. I have paid dearly for letting go of those people. Luckily, I have a second chance.
I choose to treat people with respect no matter what they bring to the table. I want to be that person, not just for what it will bring to others, but for what it will bring to me. I want to be that person and never let that person go.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: September 25, 2020
Your time
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Homily:
“He has made everything beautiful in its time”
This is your time.
You are beautiful.
You are perfectly built to define the times.
Live true.