Lindsay's Ramblings

  "Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not." -Paulo Coelho Sometimes I feel bitterness and resentment and anger build up in me from things that have happened in the last few years...people who have hurt me, insulted me, abandoned me.... And while I don't want to be naive or walked on or disrespected, I also don't want to be a person full of bitterness and anger. I don't want to be defensive all the time, or someone who gets easily triggered and reactive. I want to be calm and gentle, while also having boundaries, which is a hard balance. I want to be grace-filled and slow to speak and not let my emotions get the best of me. So I have to fight it. I have to pray for God to take it from my heart when I feel the bitterness creep up. I have to pray for healing. I have to let go of certain things. I have to forgive. Because I don't want it to make me into a person that I'm not. I have to remember that at the end of the day we're al