Day: November 30, 2021

When you are caught or confronted, what do you feel? Shame?  Exposed?  Fearful?  Defensive? What’s the first thing you want to do? Hide?  Defend?  Counterattack?  Justify? When someone accuses you of some kind of failure – critical words, judgement, thoughtlessness, being mean – are you surprised? Do you live with some unadmitted sense that you could and should live life perfectly, faultlessly? I absolutely hate being confronted.  I work really hard to do life “right.”  But—surprise, surprise—I am almost always caught off guard by my failures. I had a dream… Continue reading love means being excited about being sorry