As I ponder on what I got from today and all of the many amazing conversations I’ve had with women from my parish I keep coming back to this unsettling truth – I’ll never be ‘right’. I’ll try. I’ll insist. I’ll fight to be. I’ll back off in order to be. I’ll persuade. I’ll scream. I’ll cry. I’ll plead. I’ll manipulate. I’ll justify. I’ll sulk. I’ll ignore. I’ll conform. I’ll hold my breath!
But I will never be right.
What I CAN do is choose to follow what is right and that worthy title we all strive for is only held by GOD.
I was a part of many conversations today that essentially came down to one theme – am I doing (or have I done) what is right? And we can only be certain of this if we know we are walking daily, minute by minute in God’s will.
In The Daily Bread it states (from my chapter today) “God made man intelligent enough to see that he should do what is right. And so the sinner knows he is a sinner.”
I think about the moments when I want to BE RIGHT and to make others see that I’m RIGHT. Isn’t that always followed with the need to then make them ‘follow you’ because you are right? And they are wrong? That is why I’ll never be ‘right’ because it is not ME anyone should follow. That is why no matter WHAT I do to get another to go ‘my way’ and see that ‘I’m right’ it will be fruitless for they too have been equipped with the knowledge of knowing Him, hence ‘following what is right’.
I guess the upside to this message is you can still have the ‘right’ to say “I told you so!” when they do get it! 😉
Blessings
Shannon