re: #92 reine.de.tout

That is why it’s important, IMO, to reflect upon an action before you take it, to try to figure out your motives and reasons for it. Often, my own failures are the result of making a knee-jerk quick reaction that I haven’t thought through, and I regret later.

Example: My neighbor is an elderly lady who lives alone, and her family is busy and they don’t visit often.

The other day I was at her house for something or other, and she had just finished making herself lunch and asked me if I liked red beans and rice (I’m thinking she was going to invite me to lunch), which of course I do but I can’t eat them.

Anyhow - I was stressed and had a lot to do, and I was anxious to get away and but she kept chattering on about this and that, and I FINALLY got away.

Later it occurred to me that she was sitting there having lunch alone, like she does EVERY DAY, and was probably very lonely, and it would not have killed me to sit down and chat with her for 5 or 10 minutes. So next time I will. And I hope the Lord forgives me for being so caught up in my own world that I did not show her a bit of kindness that day.