It never ceases to amaze the innocence with which a former friend comes to me and asks me why I am no longer his or her friend, the reasons. When I decline to answer because I know that what I have to say will not be taken constructively and with great offense, I am attacked in a letter that is deceptively nice.
Perhaps that's why the friendship is over -- the mixture of sweetness and backbiting. I can live without that. I cannot offer absolution, only forgiveness.
We all do that sometimes, sweetness mixing with backbiting, but the most important thing we must do is to recognize it for what it is. It is a destructive quality that can permeate and eat away at a relationship until it falls apart. I know. I've had to come to terms with it in myself.
Okay. Rant is over. My next post will be upbeat.
"Philippians 4:8 -- Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
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