Extra, Extra Grace Required
A couple of years ago I wrote about the loved ones in our lives who drive us a little bit insane, the people who require extra grace from us. We keep them in our lives because we love them enough to try to be more forgiving, accepting, and patient people. Extra Grace Required What about the people in whom we see no redeeming qualities? The people who deliberately hurt us? Those we would gladly remove from our lives, if only we could? The people who require extra, extra grace? To start, no, it's not my ex-husband. Through the love we shared and our history, there remain many things I will always cherish about him. This automatically excludes him from the very short list of people...uh...person, for whom I have zero positive feelings. Let's just call him Extra Extra. After a particularly snide comment from Extra Extra yesterday, I found myself troubled, not with him so much as myself. Having come to expect judgmental, hurtful inte...