My interest in the Mistreated Past has never been strong. Why waste time trying to educate yourself about something that took place in the past and cannot be altered? When I started taking classes in world history in college, everything started to change. I had never before understood history as anything more than a list of names and dates, but that day opened my eyes. I started to see it as the story of humanity, complete with triumphs and tragedies, highs and lows, and everything in between. The way in which people have been mistreated throughout history has left a particularly strong impression on me. I was astounded by the manner in which certain groups of people were treated solely on the basis of the colour of their skin or the ethnicity of their ancestry, whether it concerned the expulsion of Native Americans from their land or the denial of fundamental rights to African Americans. This course opened my eyes to the importance of drawing lessons from the past in order to ensure that future generations do not make the same mistakes as our forebears. Otherwise, we will continue to mistreat each other, and the generations that come after us will judge us with the same severity that we judge the generations that came before us.
good morning
god's kingdom is at hand you are not
alone
it is well oh how
the tables have turned
funny how things turn around in the
blink of an
eye isn't it the person who used to
treat you
so badly now needs your help
with their care perhaps for years since
you can remember
the verbal abuses the mistreatment
sometimes resembling even
slavery my ad the manipulation
the domination and the malice of it all
all weighing heavily on your mind
causing mixed emotions of resentment
and the need or requirement to provide
care for them either through willingness
or because they have
no one else either way you have
answered the call to care you
are not alone overcoming the resentment
is the hardest part with constant
flashbacks
continuous reminders of their
mistreatment towards you
most times making it unbearable to be
in the mere company alone aggravating
your
every inch of being you find yourself
snapping at them like they used to do at
you how the tables
have turned now you're
in the position to treat them as they
did you
now you have the upper hand
with power comes great responsibility
it is easy to treat them as they treated
you
but then that makes you just like them
many people like to take the easy option
yet the harder is always more rewarding
to forgive you see
forgiving them releases you from that
tight noose of resentment around your
head
allowing you to confront them from a
non-confrontational
peaceful perspective will encourage them
to
open to a reasonable dialogue which
will in turn enable you to put some
of the said to rest
hence allowing you to move on praise god
bringing you closer together to have
the relationship you have yearned for
the relationship
you have always wanted but never had
and if all fails at least you know you
have had
you have made your peace by forgiving
them
and letting go of the past to embrace
the present because today is a present
and not many people have been blessed to
receive
this present to forgive
is also another way of having closure
as it takes so much energy so much
stress
and all other emotions to maintain or
sustain
resentment in fact it is stifling
and tightened at every thought
life is but a vapor far too
short would you not agree forgive
let go and you too shall be forgiven for
your shortcomings
no one is perfect but we can do
all things through christ who
strengthens
us to being perfect as he
is perfect
you are not alone
oh how the tables have turned
with great powers comes great
responsibilities
i since my career as a professional
caregiver i have come across so many
people are the pain
so many people in this situation
and they as most of them think that
since they are now in a higher position
to enforce some kind of in more
emotional
torture towards their parents for what
they did to them
it's going to somehow make them feel
better but in turn it doesn't
it just makes them go around even more
in
circles of emotional turmoil
it is not worth it it takes so much
energy to
hate it takes so much stress
but to release the stress by forgiving
them
forgetting might be a little bit harder
but forgiving them from your heart
and saying you know what you did what
you did
you had your time to to do better to me
but you didn't
but i am now in this position
to care for you the option to treat you
like you treated me
but i'm not going to do that i am better
than that
i am going to treat you the way i wanted
me to be treated by you
so forgive them and care for them
from a place of love that is all that
you can do
and in turn it gives you the upper hand
anyway
god bless
