Today, somewhat inexplicably, I stalked the Facebook page of someone I considered an enemy and the epitome of evil: beautiful, ruthless, mendacious. And I found two grammatical and spelling errors in what she said.
And suddenly, my animosity dissolved, not knowing where to go. Her mistakes made her fallible, with English that was not very good...OK they could have been typos. But two? For an editor? And suddenly she was just a vulnerable human being who had made mistakes. A human being I had liked before she turned hostile, but not one that was dangerous or evil or anything.
She was just a child clutching at happiness, because, let's face it, she was always on the outside looking in.
She had hurt someone to get what she wanted. But that's what we do. We hurt other people. We don't think about what we are doing. We don't consider.
Maybe this is a minor miracle.
Who would have thought that finding two errors would lighten a load I had been carrying for all this time.
I hated her because she hated me. I hated her, because she pointed out my flaws.
Now I find that she has flaws.
And, everything is all right again.
Lord if you marked our transgressions, who would stand? Thanks to your grace we are cleansed by the blood of the Lamb...
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