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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Our garden of relationships

Our human relationships -- our kin and families, our spouses and children, our business and work associates, our neighbors, and now our internet connections, are all part of a web of connections that we must constantly nurture and build and take care of.  It is our garden.

What to do about weeds?  Well here I think the garden metaphor fails.  "What God has put together let no man tear apart."  The scripture is usually applied to marriage, but the reality is it applies to all our relationships, and most especially to our friendships.  To be sure once we get to know someone well we see their faults that may not have been as visible when we first met, but what do you expect?  No one is perfect and we must worry about our own faults and not about those of others, and be forgiving, albeit wise about people.

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