Getting even is odd.
Earlier I received the a quote from Kat through text. I enjoyed reading the message and I wanted to share my thoughts and experiences on those five things that the quote stated. So I decided to do five entries so that it wouldn’t be a very long post. 
The first one said:
Learn that when you plan to get even with someone, you’re only letting that person continue to hurt you.
In the first lesson, the quote deals with how revenge or hatred or jealousy affects us. Admit it or not, sometimes we fall on the revenge trap when we feel slighted or hurt by other people. Not all of us automatically understand the situation and forgive those who hurt us and go on with our lives. Sometimes we get sidetracked by how much we have been hurt that we decide to feed on that pain and hatred we feel by taking revenge on them.
What we need to understand though is that no matter how much pain you cause those who hurt you before, you can never heal the pain they caused you through revenge. Not only will you feel guilty after you hurt them, you might also cause a much greater pain that what you experienced. Forgiveness can be hard but once you do learn to forgive, you feel lighter because you have entrusted everything to Him. We are not perfect individuals and we all in one way or another have committed mistakes which hurt other people. We cannot forgive by ourselves because sometimes we feel too much of the pain that we find it so hard to forgive them in our hearts.
I remember one story I read before in a book that I think was called A Cup of Comfort for Inspiration. I’m not too sure if that was the book since I don’t have it with me but I’ll check it as soon as I can. The story was about one woman who was taken in a concentration camp during the holocaust period. In that story she talked about how she became a speaker who talked about forgiveness with her audiences. One time after one of her speeches, a man approached her. Once she turned, she saw that it was the same soldier who had raped and abused her while she was in the camp. The man had approached her and told her, “Since you have been talking about forgiveness, then you have forgiven me?”. At that moment everything she experienced went back to her mind and she thought to herself that he cannot forgive this man with everything that he has done to her. But while she was thinking that, it came to her that if she relied on herself to forgive this man, she could not but if she asked God to help her forgive him, she can. So she did ask God for courage and for love and she was able to tell the man that she has forgiven him. Once she did, she felt the burden from her shoulders leave and her heart felt peace.
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