By Andrea Herzer
“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ.” - 2 Corinthians 1:20
When my son was a toddler, he had a red plastic car that he could “drive” by sitting in it and scooting it with his feet. Our family jokes that he did not walk for the first four years of his life because he was always driving his miniature car. When he drove it indoors, I often had to reach down and stop the car before it ran into one of his sisters. He was so intent on “driving” that he had not noticed he was going to hurt someone. On beautiful sunny days, we would go outside and he and his little red car would go tearing down the pavement. I would have to run to keep up with him, once again becoming his “brakes” to keep him from flying into cars that drove down our street.
By Andrea Herzer
The soothing (healing) tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse (distorted, vicious, deceitful) tongue crushes the spirit. - Proverbs 15:4
Have you ever experienced a betrayal by someone who you trusted? Years ago, I suffered the pain of an undeserved betrayal. Trust, then peace, and finally unity were all destroyed as the matter was repeated; after all, “gossip separates the best of friends” (Proverbs 16:28).
Soon, what might have been a private matter became convoluted by those who were quick to judge without knowing the facts. I wish I could say that I took the hurt to God in prayer, allowed him to defend me, then forgave and happily moved on with my life. That is what I wanted to do. It is what I tried to do, at times. But what I mostly did was cry, seethe, and talk endlessly about how I had been hurt.