There are things I do not know and can never know until you tell me. It is a thought I had recently after reading some wise comments on another post today. The wisdom shared was the person has learned he can never truly know how another feels about him until he asks and that adopting this attitude makes him less worried.
How often do we make ourselves miserable being hurt by what we believe others may feel about us? How often do we hurt relationships by judging inaccurately? Spiritual and emotional health probably rests on having an internal sense of one’s self being worthy valuable and okay as we are, even with all of the flaws and wounds that may have affected us. Also in knowing we can work on certain things to improve our sense of love and capacity to relate. And also in knowing and accepting how our values may differ to other’s values not expecting them to be the same.
And I am also learning that there are no hard and fast absolutes in this life. Overthinking can become a problem for some of us especially when we engage in ongoing negative rumination, but the capacity to think about our thinking and ways of perceiving and projecting may help us grow in wisdom and understanding.
I am grateful for the power of my mind. I am becoming more and more aware of my mind’s power to hurt to encourage, to perceive and musperceive, to create happiness or misery, to construct or deconstruct. Ditto with the complex issue of feeding negative and angry feelings. I listened to another powerful Joyce Meyer sermon on this last night.
Also compassion and empathy for ourselves and others can often rest on an understanding of causative factors. How often do we REALLY KNOW what has formed another person’s personality? Knowing there are things about others we cannot change..even difficult to accept things requires emotional intelligence it also helps us to find more and more serenity in difficult interactions with others. Serenity rests upon accepting what we cannot change and working to change or make a more positive impact on those things we do have some power over, such as our attitudes.
Emerging From The Dark Night 
Great post i needed this today. I try to give myself grace but it doesn’t always happen especially when i think about how others perceive me
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It can be so difficult for some of us. Some people just don’t really care what others think but for those of us who may do it often makes living and taking action more difficult.
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