Thursday, January 7, 2010

Who is it between for you?

From Mother Theresa:

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;

forgive them anyway.


If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

be kind anyway.


If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies;

succeed anyway.


If you are honest people may cheat you;

be honest anyway.


What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

build anyway.


If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

be happy anyway.


The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

do good anyway.


Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.


You see, in the end, it is between you and God;

it was never between you and them anyway.

Wow...why is this so hard for us to see when we argue with others or feel others have caused us wrong? I am going to let this be my New Years resolution...to remember who it's really between.

Thanks to MckMama for reminding us of this great writing today.

1 comment:

allthingsnew said...

I haven't read this in a long time, and I needed to! Thank you for posting this!!!

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