little stuff?

What about forgiving the little stuff? ...the stuff that pushes your buttons...the stuff that you know isn't life changing but irritates the dickens out of you?  the stuff you have asked (in a polite way) your spouse or partner or child or roommate or fellow worker to please stop and they keep doing it? Do we have to forgive that stuff?

Yeah, I think we do. Otherwise it just keeps niggling and stressing us until we explode---and then we have to ask for their forgiveness and the circle goes on and on. I think forgiveness in those situations is about accepting the reality of who they are and who we are. It's helpful to examine why this or that behavior does irritate us and is there a way to ask them to modify it ---and what we are willing to do to accept that modification.

Yesterday we took a day trip to Death Valley National Park. Talk about things seeming insignificant! Looking at the millions of years of evolution, what that desert was and what it is now, mountains with black hillsides that are remains of volcanic ash, undulating hills of borax shaped by thousands of years of wind.

We really do need to look at the little irritations in our lives and move to forgiveness. We will be so much more at peace.

What irritation can I work on today that irritates someone else? What irritation can I work on forgiving?

The peace that God promises.

Blessings---Penny