forgivness........

Have you ever met one of those people who....just hasn't a clue? You know the ones I'm talking about. Who think they can be rude and critical and yet expect you not to get mad  "because they were just telling the truth" or
 who know how to point out all your weaknesses but don't pay any attention to your strengths?
I have met a few of these people.  I am not always quick on my feet on my reaction when they tell me things. Instead it dawns on me later on what they really said and or were implying. How do you react to such things?
 I get angry and sometime take it out on the next poor fool or I write a letter a mile long to the person who made me angry...that never gets sent....

One of my biggest challenges is to come straight out and tell the person that what they said was hurtful or that they were just a complete jerk for whatever it was they said.  I think I would find myself in a less hurtful situations if I dealt with them first off instead of letting them take hold of me.

But if I am anything it is forgiving. Why? I do not know. Perhaps because I am to nice at times or perhaps I know that it would just ruin me if I let it sit and smolder but I can never seem to stay mad at a person for very long. Forgiving is a better way. Christ told us to forgive our brother 70x7.In other words never stop forgiving each other. Christ was the most forgiving and from him I learn how to forgive.