Learning How To Live Again

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Romans 12:14
I'm fairly confident that everyone reading this is human. That means you have a human nature which means it's not your tendancy to smile and be nice to someone being a jerk with you. Not hardly! But as Christians, we're expected to be better than human--we're expected (by God and man) to react like the Christ Whose name we bear. That's not even easy to think about, much less actually live! So we have to train ourselves; we have to program our minds to stop and respond with love and compassion--even when we're being dealt spite and abuse. I can't give you a magic formula to make this easy. There's only one thing I know that can make this doable at all: accept that you cannot change anyone but yourself. Living blow for blow with the world is not going to make the world act any better towards you--it'll just get you a beat-down. Recognize that the only thing you can do is refuse to let them affect you; learn to go with the flow...with a smile on your face.