A lesson on Grace
Posted by Dominic Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:11:00 GMT
God taught me a lesson on grace yesterday.
A friend of mine accidentally exhibited some behavior that I have a bit of baggage about in my past. And my first instinct was to think the worst of her, and in my initial communique I was significantly more accusatory than I needed to be.
In talking back and forth, turns out it was an accident - we were a victim of some non-obvious user interface behavior behavior on a certain social networking site.
That’s when It hit me - the fact that right off the bat, I had assumed the worst of her… how twisted of me is that?
About the same time, I had a response from said friend, in which she challenged me to be more courteous the next time, et cetera. It was quite a bit of a wake-up.
I ended up thanking her for having confronted me and apologizing profusely for thinking that she had done it out of malice.
It reminded me of a quote I’ve read online many times:
Do not attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance.
Sometimes those are useful words to remember.