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I feel like I was led to a wonderful article dealing with personal hurts I have been going through lately. It was just what I needed to hear and has lifted a huge burden off of me this morning. It is on: ANGER AND RESENTMENT: FINDING FORGIVENESS AND PEACE OF MIND :
http://brightsorcerer.hubpages.com/hub/ANGER-AND-RESENTMENT-FINDING-FORGIVENESS-AND-PEACE-OF-MIND I like the photo of what anger and resentment looks like at the start of the article. I think all of us deal with this from time to time and so I thought I would share it. Life certainly is there to teach us lessons we need to learn.
Bridget
excellent article. Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk 2
Quote:Life certainly is there to teach us lessons we need to learn.
Amen, bridget – if we let it.
Great article! Something I needed to be reminded of 
The parts of the article that gripped me were that we have to interact with others, and in the process, we often learn about ourselves. I learned that I have tendencies to hold grudges when people hurt me. That’s my challenge — to get past those things. I’m almost 50 and I’m still struggling and only the passage of time from the event seems to heal it. How difficult it is.
The other thing that made sense to me in the article is that we have to move past blaming others – we need to stop looking at ourselves as the person who was blameless and it was someone else’s fault. Although this doesnt’ mean you accept responsibility for what the other person did to you (you may well be blameless), you simply stop looking at yourself as the victim.
The part I didn’t like/get/understand was this:
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We all have a number of spirit guides or helpers whose sole responsibility is to ensure that situations present themselves to facilitate our learning and growth. Anytime we feel uncharacteristically bored, on edge, restless, unable to find satisfaction in activities or people that once held our interest – situations in general that once brought great comfort – or ill at ease, it is almost certain that we’re not doing something that we need to do. Our guides cannot take direct action in our lives but they can make it very known to us, through various means, that we need to pay attention to a particular issue.First, I’m not sure there is someone orchestrating my life. The older I get, the less I believe that is so. I see God as a great Designer of the Eternal Infrastructure and that infrustructure runs itself…with divine designs at the outset, meant to produce certain result, which it does rather unevenly with occasional flashes of divine intervention.
Second, I’m not convinced that boredom belongs in the list of indicators we are “not doing something that we need to do”. For example, Sacrament meeting is the ultimate boring experience for me. That boredom may mean that I should make changes in my life, but does it mean that I’m “not doing something I’m supposed to be doing”? I’m not convinced this is so. However, I’m open to comments on that one.
If you want to reinterpet that statement to mean what Steve Jobs said, then it makes sense. He said that if you find yourself doing something you don’t want to do too many days in a row, you have to “make changes”. He implies that sometimes life IS boring or unpleasant, and if that goes on too long, then make adjustments to remove that boredom from your life, including cutting it out of your life. He’s not implying that you are necessarily deficient in someway, as the author of Bridget’s article implies.
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Thank you all for your comments. What helped me personally in the article is to not think that everything bad that happens to us is a punishment for past sins. I like the statement he made “Hell is not punishment’, but training. I read the article to my husband who had the same question about ‘guides.’ I do believe we have guardian angels watching over us and to perhaps guide us. I have heard many experiences of people with guardian angels of their dead ancestors. I am not sure how much they can take part in our lives, but it seems they can at times and in emergencies. I do not know for sure, but I like to believe that. Here is a link that kind of goes along with the getting rid of anger and resentment, but focuses on what brings real happiness:
http://www.purposefairy.com/3308/15-things-you-should-give-up-in-order-to-be-happy/ Bridget
SilentDawning wrote:Second, I’m not convinced that boredom belongs in the list of indicators we are “not doing something that we need to do”.
For example, Sacrament meeting is the ultimate boring experience for me.… Ha! Nice.
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