ThatTimeJuls...

  I don’t have a monopoly on hurt and pain! Do you know the pain of the people around you? The people who pour into your life have hurt too. I had this thought some months ago regarding a friend I love dearly. I felt they were so stuck in the hurt and pain of past relationships that it was spilling over into our friendship. I didn’t know how to tell them they were doing to me what was being done to them. So, I started to pray. What God said to me was you don’t have a monopoly of hurt and pain. I thought it was meant for my friend, but I realize it was for me. While it may apply to my friend, I had to look at the area of my life that I use my past hurts to mistreat those around me that love me. There are some people in our lives that haven’t asked to be in the roles they are in, like my children. Children love their parents no matter what and as a parent I love and protect my babies no matter what. I have to check my issues because my children are innocent and didn’t ask to be her...