Negative

What does a negative sign do to a mathematical equation? It changes everything 180 degrees. What’s positive becomes negative and vice versa. Over the years, there is negative sign hovering in our lives, waiting for the right moment to paunch and reverse everything. It often happens when someone you trusted wholeheartedly lies to you. Or when a long held and hoped for promise is broken. When a hovering negative sign landed, one become confused and the need to reevaluate the past become an arduous and emotional task.

What is one to do when a negative sign landed in front of positive feelings you have stored with regard to a family member? It takes one wrong comment to destroy years of good relationship. Relationship between family members often is the most tenuous one. How does one remove the big ugly negative sign in our lives? Forgive and forget. Unfortunately, family is the hardest people to forgive. What to do then?

Ask for God’s mercy. Because it is only through God’s mercy forgiving others become possible. Unforgiveness is a sign of defeat. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21)