Share a time when you were overcome with
guilt.
I don’t know
that there’s one particular time I have felt overcome with guilt over a single
action or word, but there’s been more times than I can count that I felt guilt
over a bad decision, even a right decision that I knew would hurt others, or a
sharp word to another that never should have been spoken. The problem with guilt is that it’s useless,
and it can cause you to make more subsequent decisions that are harmful to
others because you are not acting out of their best interests, but rather your
own guilt. For example, spoiling your
children because you feel guilt over divorcing their mom or dad. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to feel remorse
for our mistakes, but to drown in that guilt or allow it to affect the way you
respond to family and friends is not okay. Guilt is good in that it starts us on
the process to reconciliation, forgiveness, and healing, but you have to let it
move you forward to being a better you, not keep you down or pull you out of
the world and living life to the fullest.
So, yes, there have been times I have felt the weight of guilt on my
heart and mind, but once I feel this, I know it’s time to figure out how to fix
it, to make it right (or at least as right as it can be) and learn from it, not
carry it around like a bag full of rocks.
Maybe that’s why there’s not one particular moment of guilt that sticks
out for me because my faith taught me long ago how to ask forgiveness, let go,
and work on being better for next time.
After all, He’s still working on me to make me what I ought to be…..
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