First of all I have been praying that Christ would enable me to forgive the hurt and reflect on what I can learn from the message he delivered with such vehemence.

Then, Jesus said we must take the plank out of our own eye before we seek to remove the splinter from another’s. On Sunday I was in a state of emotional exhaustion from a week of highs and lows and I would have loved him to have asked me how I was and what could have lead to the behaviour. And so in spirit of planks and splinters I will try to acknowledge how hurt they felt and try to make this right first.

And then I will try to look out for those who may be equally low and just say “Hi” and “How are you doing?”

Our Father gave me just such an opportunity when I was leaving the supermarket this afternoon when I met a woman from our congregation. Instead of waving as I walked past I asked her how she was. And when I asked her again she told me she had taken her mother to an old age home. Her mother was hating it and this poor woman was feeling distraught. Her circumstances meant she had no choice in the matter. So I was able to just be with her for that short time in the sunshine and say “Sterkte sister”.

Thanks for this note David – I think if we all tried to apply these points there would be very little giving of advice and criticism. Which would be lovely I think.

I am more likely to get a friendly nod at least or otherwise I will get eggs thrown in my face if I am direct so I am learning to either shut my trap up or do the 5:1 ratio.

For example it has recently dawned on me that perhaps why so many people on the internet has a lot of outside connections such as on fanfiction where a badly written story has 18 chapters with 300+ reviews may be because they were born during one of the baby boomer eras.

Dad and I were both born at the end of baby boomer eras so we are left over with the scraps and have very few outside connections while others before Dad’s birth were born during the baby boomer era which most of our family got into sinfull life styles but don’t feel much of the consequences.

Dad is very good at history and especially bible history having a really neat timeline that took him a long time to make with a lot of interesting results showing archeology stuff that proves bible stories do have a reality to them from being called on by The Lord.

I will refrain from saying anymore because it takes too long to get into on here and chances are you are likely not to even read this far unless God is willing*