Failure and Pain and People
The very essence of our humanity is failure. So we should not be afraid to fail, to be found unable, to display imperfection. Every one of us is a broken and flawed individual, so we have to see each other on this equal ground. It is also on that same ground that we have to recognize and accept every other person. Recognizing and embracing these flaws in others is doing so with our very selves. Everyday, we will get to see this brokenness displayed over and over for infinite number of times. We may question how long it will end, and you can be assured that the answer is really insignificant - because what matters is not when the person is going to change, but on how you can be changed through his display of brokenness.
So, it’s a normal scene in this life to be hurt when people fail us, because the fact of the matter is, in their perspective, we’ve also failed them in some ways. We’re not actually here to point our fingers on who’s done what, but to strive, in our brokenness, to make and bring out a world that’s a great place to live in, one with joy and contentment - because what we don’t have has been supplied by what the other person has, and vice versa.
In the Christian perspective, here’s what author Anne Rice says about it: You know, you’re not in the pew for the sake of the person next to you. You’re in the pew to talk to God. You’re there to worship Him and to pray to Him and to have an experience with Him in church. Don’t worry if the person in the pew is mean. People aren’t saints. And whenever people leave religion it’s because they’ve been brutally hurt, and I understand. I have only respect for people’s pain, but you’re not in a religion because that religion is perfect. You’re in that religion because it’s bringing you to God. So don’t turn your back on Him because His people have faults.
/***(Anne Rice, the author of Interview with the Vampire, as she shared her story of being back to Christianity in 1998, and decision of writing only books that would let the reader know more about Christ in 2002. She’s now writing books about the works of Christ, although with fictional touch.)***/
So, it’s a normal scene in this life to be hurt when people fail us, because the fact of the matter is, in their perspective, we’ve also failed them in some ways. We’re not actually here to point our fingers on who’s done what, but to strive, in our brokenness, to make and bring out a world that’s a great place to live in, one with joy and contentment - because what we don’t have has been supplied by what the other person has, and vice versa.
In the Christian perspective, here’s what author Anne Rice says about it: You know, you’re not in the pew for the sake of the person next to you. You’re in the pew to talk to God. You’re there to worship Him and to pray to Him and to have an experience with Him in church. Don’t worry if the person in the pew is mean. People aren’t saints. And whenever people leave religion it’s because they’ve been brutally hurt, and I understand. I have only respect for people’s pain, but you’re not in a religion because that religion is perfect. You’re in that religion because it’s bringing you to God. So don’t turn your back on Him because His people have faults.
/***(Anne Rice, the author of Interview with the Vampire, as she shared her story of being back to Christianity in 1998, and decision of writing only books that would let the reader know more about Christ in 2002. She’s now writing books about the works of Christ, although with fictional touch.)***/
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