It May Not Be An Attack

Often when we feel hurt by someone's truth to us, it feels like an attack when it was not at all. I have said things in the mildest terms sometimes to people but they interpret the exchange as mean spirited when they feel bad about it.

Sometimes they interpret how I said it in terms of their own way of communicating. They see an attack because they would have been attacking if they had corrected someone.

I was once chastised by an older woman when I was very young. I thought I would die of embarrassment, but when I thought about it, she was right, I made a change and realized she didn't say it in a mean or harsh way, it was my reaction to it that led me to think so.


I noticed too in my own life, that the more mature I become in the Lord the less I see correction as an attack. I see it now as a challenge to go and find the truth or to explain what I already know.