On Looking for Slights
We must look to ourselves and take heed how we
receive the acts, the words, and the manners of others. If we
are proud, and are always on the watch for slights, and
unfriendly hints, and little hurts—we can find plenty of them.
We need, therefore, to cultivate the spirit of humility in all
our interactions with others. We need to learn patience,
forbearance, longsuffering, meekness, and forgiveness. In a
word, love—love which thinks no evil. Then we shall never be
suspicious, never be exacting, never demand our "rights." We
shall endure even intended wrongs—patiently, sweetly, with true
meekness.
- J. R. Miller, In
Green Pastures, Nov.
10th
