Why Do I Have To Care SOOOOO Much?
Today I was catching up on my Facebook friends and I noticed a quote Bro. Matt Maddix has saved on his page. "Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it." Wow. I must've heard that from my husband several hundred times over the last 30 years. (Okay, 29 years, 10 months and 21 days, but who's counting!) His version goes like this....usually following some subterfuge revealed or a direct and public personal attack.... "Honey, let it go. People who know and love you know you aren't like that. And it doesn't matter what people who don't love you think." **sigh** I 'know' in my heart he is right. What I don't know is WHY it hurts so bad? Is it maybe a particular device the enemy uses against me -- because I have a tender heart? I don't know. Typically I think of myself as a very strong, resilient and flexible person. While I don't think I've had all that much real Job-like suffe...