Burned Good

This week I made a serious mistake which caused me to step back and evaluate the road I have been traveling. I received an email request from someone, and I forwarded the request to my boss with exceedingly frank comments regarding my opinion of the matter. A little later, I was checking my email and discovered that rather than forwarding the request to my boss I had replied to the requester’s original message. I was devastated.

There is always a need to be extra cordial in public, but sometimes this can lead to a duality in our lives. I looked back and saw a number of recent incidents where I was acting very cordial and non-confrontation to a person’s face, but behind the scenes I was anything from upset, disappointed to even brutally dismissive. I had spent time prejudging and even spreading my prejudices rather than simply going to the person in compassion and love and getting to the heart of the matter.

In my experience and observation, this seed of devilry never remains hidden for too long. Our true colors eventually come out. It is much better to govern our thoughts and tongues at all times…then we never have to worry about who we’re with or who we sent that email to.
I got burned…but there was a rose in it