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You’re right. When we get our mind tangled up in negative thoughts, we might need a way to take things less personally at times. Here’s an interesting word that I think helps us flow through life with less anxiety in and after our interactions with people:
Sonder - The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.
Knowing that there’s an equally complicated life happening on the other side of side of every communication in life helps us to flow onward more peacefully.
Just what came to mind. Have a great day!
Man, Jerry can go fuck himself tho
Thanks for sharing, Jack. Multiple angles to explore and reflect.
Reminds me of Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
“I the LORD search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Also of what could happen when people are big and God is small. Psalm 118:4-8
Let those who fear the LORD say,
“His steadfast love endures forever.”
Out of my distress I called on the LORD;
the LORD answered me and set me free.
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?
The LORD is on my side as my helper;
I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.
It is better to take refuge in the LORD
than to trust in man.
Consider the source, and apologize if needed. Problem solved. And, whatever you do, be yourself. It is enough, and awesome.
u forget about this :
"
1 Judah’s sin is engraved
with an iron pen.
It’s etched with a diamond point
on the tablets of their hearts
and on the horns of their altars.
2 Their children remember their altars and sacred poles
by the lush trees and high hills.
3 Because you have committed such sins throughout your country,
I will give to your enemies
my mountain in the land,
as well as your wealth and all that you treasure.
4 You will lose the inheritance that I gave you.
I will make you slaves of your enemies
in a land you don’t know,
for my anger blazes like a fire
that won’t go out.
5 The LORD proclaims:
Cursed are those who trust in mere humans,
who depend on human strength
and turn their hearts from the LORD.
6 They will be like a desert shrub
that doesn’t know when relief comes.
They will live in the parched places of the wilderness,
in a barren land where no one survives.
7 Happy are those who trust in the LORD,
who rely on the LORD.
8 They will be like trees planted by the streams,
whose roots reach down to the water.
They won’t fear drought when it comes;
their leaves will remain green.
They won’t be stressed in the time of drought
or fail to bear fruit. ''
who hurt you?
Yes. Jeremiah is prophesying God’s judgment on God’s people for their idolatry, for not trusting and following Yahweh.
This hits really hard! I feel seen.
Thank you for the value that you bring every day by being you.
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Sad but 100% True
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