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If you'd be so kind as to love, listen; if you'd be so gracious as to clear your mind, hear me. Think of your enemy, your rival, someone who simply keeps putting you down in the dirt, do you love them? 773Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RFPrHsbhH
Tolerance may lead to showing mercy, and it may lead to keeping your mouth shut and to "soldier on," if you may, but don't do it. In my own religion, I am called to love my enemies, and I am frightened to say that most of my family of believers do not love, they tolerate. Yes. There is a difference, and a big one. It bothers me when my classmates say, "Pray for this person, because she's/he's so hard to be nice to, and I think she/he just needs prayer."
Why?
Why does this person need prayer?
Sure, they may be mean from what you say, but what you're saying now is unloving and one-sided, is it not? And though you say you've been able to handle it-- that's not what you should be doing. Stop handling it. Stop trying to get through it. Look at the person and say to yourself that you're no better and no worse. Pray for them? No. If prayer is what you want, then I will pray that perhaps you may seem them as human and not as your enemy.
It pains me to think my brother believes tolerance is the same, if not better, than love. It is not. I tolerate my mother when she nags me. That is not okay, but I do it. Now, lashing back t her and telling off wouldn't be better, and it wouldn't do much good at all. However, eventually, everything you've been tolerating will come back, and you will (if not are) become a hateful a demeaning person. I've seen it happen. I see it in my brother at times.
It eventually adds up, the bucket of untouched and uncensored emotions finally topple over and spill everywhere.
If I put water in a cup and then spill it, what comes out? Water. In the same way, whatever you fill yourself with will spill out when you're bumped, either literally or figuratively. 773Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7QgyzGbj5
I encourage you, if you tolerate, to take a step back from it, and be with people who love and enjoy you so that you may experience what non-toleration is like and learn to live without it so that you can love instead. I hope you do not victimize yourself in the process, I hope you do not look at your enemy and think how wrong and how insignificant they are.
So I ask you this question once more; think of your enemy, your rival, someone who simply keeps putting you down in the dirt, do you love them?
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It seems that I can't express this super well. It's too bad, because I'm passionate about this little subject and that it brings a huge change when you decide to love instead of tolerate, but alas (sigh) it's hard to write down what's in my head. 773Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZ7zVd91vy
Oh well, this was suppose to be pretty opinionated, and I hope it didn't very to a lecture 'cause that's not at all what I'm going for. But if so, you're just gonna have to tolerate it.773Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22F6zRGZGd
-LovelySheree
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