http://www.dominiceidson.com/blog/articles/2009/10/15/a-lesson-on-grace en-us 40 <p>God taught me a lesson on grace yesterday.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>That&#8217;s when It hit me - the fact that right off the bat, I had assumed the worst of her&#8230; how twisted of me is that?</p> <p>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.</p> <p>I ended up thanking her for having confronted me and apologizing profusely for thinking that she had done it out of malice.</p> <p>It reminded me of a quote I&#8217;ve read online many times:</p> <blockquote> <p>Do not attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance.</p> </blockquote> <p>Sometimes those are useful words to remember.</p> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:11:00 -0500 urn:uuid:5a61cfbc-36f9-480d-ad8d-4df19f635bad Dominic http://www.dominiceidson.com/blog/articles/2009/10/15/a-lesson-on-grace God http://www.dominiceidson.com/blog/articles/trackback/163