Look for the Good

July 1, 2015 @ 9:00 AM

  

Norma sat in my office and spouted off a list of her husband’s faults. He was loud, overweight, weak, selfish, rigid…and the list went on and on and on. I asked her how long she had been thinking about these things. She said almost from the beginning of their marriage. He had shown his true colors within a week of their beautiful wedding. Bingo! She had been brooding on this poor man’s faults for 25 years and now she hated him. Of course! No wonder they were on the brink of divorce! If we brood on our partner’s faults daily, we’ll hate them too. Think about this for a minute with me. If I’m spending my days meditating on how sloppy my Honey dresses; how rude he was to the cashier at the .........

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