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Cold As Ice


 

Have you ever experienced the Cold Shoulder from someone who you didn't even know very well, and wondered what was up?  Or how about your friend that is your buddy for years and then with out warning treats you like your invisible.

I think we all have been through that a time or two if not more.  Why do you suppose people do that?

 

I have beat my head against the wall trying to figure that one out.  I have tried to inventory my part in it and have come up with little if anything.  I have even tried to go to the person and make amends for something I don't even know what I'm making amends for.  So what's up with this attitude some folks seem to develop towards us for no reason.

 

Ben Franklin said:  "A man who turns his face from another man is like a winter storm.  He comes each year to buffet the earth."  In other words, there are always going to be people who act this way in our lives.  It's not a matter of if they will come; it's a matter of when.  The Winter Storm comes each year without fail.  It is consistent and it buffets the earth.  The earth is covered with the storms water and snow and is bitter cold.  But when the storm clears and the snow melts, the earth is replenished, and life not only goes on, it is refreshed.

 

Many times how others treat us is confusing and perplexing to say the least. Many times the attitude some people have towards each other is among "The Things We Cannot Change."  So we feel the pain and cold of winter, we weather the storm and if we hang on to our Higher Power, and lean not on our own understanding, it is then when we spring forth from the cold of winter refreshed.  God always promises reprieve from our trials, and comfort for our losses.

 

So when you are treated with the cold shoulder from a friend or stranger and you have done everything to make it better, make amends, or understand.  Remember, the storm will subside, and you will be refreshed.  You will meet and make new friends as the years go by and you will be blessed with knowing that it's not always something you've done.  It's just the nature of the storm.

 

Blessings and Progress to All.

Monty "man"
 
 
Meditorial:
 
Because good friends are hard to find we must always treat them with the same respect we would expect from them.  We need not judge, criticize or condemn.  When a friend treats us unusually cruel we consider that something else is going on inside them other than their outward expression of discontent.  We pray for their health both physical and spiritual.  We Waite for them as a loyal friend.



"Tolerance expresses itself in a variety of ways:  in kindness and consideration toward
the man or woman who is just beginning the march along the spiritual path..."
                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                               ~ Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith (Dr. Bob)  

 


 

 

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