Sunday, March 28, 2010

true maturity

I have heard that one of the signs of real maturity is not getting your feelings hurt. I think that's true of both emotional and spiritual maturity. I don't generally get my feelings hurt often but when I do it's usually because of someone in my immediate family. It doesn't happen frequently now so maybe I am maturing. I hope for the day when I am secure enough in my own skin, with who I am and how God has made me, secure in His sovereignty that I don't get my feelings hurt. My kids have all hurt my feelings at times along with my husband, sometimes just superficially but sometimes they have been hurts that I have struggled with. I recently was struggling with a hurt that brings back old memories and consequently melancholy and regret. I have often told my kids in recent years that even if I could go back and do some things differently I wouldn't because then I would do other things wrong. I really don't want to go back but sometimes I am tempted to think along those lines. The funny thing about this is that they probably don't or didn't know that they had hurt me and certainly not as deeply as I feel or felt. Thankfully, time does remove the immediacy of the hurt if not the hurt itself. And time also gives me a different perspective. I still long for that day...when there are no hurt feelings...but that won't be completely possible until heaven.

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