This last week has been one of the most stressful of my life--though the week of Wendy's move and my parent's divorce probably tops it. But this week has been very heavy and very intense at work--very uncharacteristic for my job and the folks there! In this, however, I have seen something pretty extraordinary: as much as we have been united, we've also been on edge because of the stress of the situation, and we've said a few pointed things or neglected to say things that should have been said.
But, and this is a very big but, I have heard many apologies over the last couple of days. One of the women said to me tonight, "I've NEVER been in a workplace where people apologize." It's really quite incredible. We've discussed how humility is not a sign of weakness; rather, humility is a sign of great strength and confidence.
When I think of how the Savior willingly took so much abuse, so much taunting, so much ridicule, and took it all with such grace, I am humbled. His humility showed his complete and total faith in His Father, and that just showed our Savior's true strength, because He knew in Whom He trusted.
I am so grateful for people at work who have shown such Christlike qualities.
2 comments:
It's difficult to suppress the desire to make people suffer who have hurt you. And we know what happened to the Savior had to happen so I wonder when people hurt me, where do I draw the line between using denial to be "over it" or never letting the person forget what they did?
You have a great workplace because in most settings small offenses to you (or potentially big to someone else) remain unacknowledged. But I'm sure we'll discuss how to forgive people who don't apologize in a later post:)
Your first sentence is so true! What is that in us? Is that the natural man, aka the insecure person who only feels better when others are cut down? Hmmm.
And the whole concept of denial to be "over something" is so true--I wish it weren't! Such an interesting line you mention there.
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