Daily Lesson for May 30, 2018

Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Proverbs chapter 17 verse 10:

“A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person

   than a hundred blows into a fool.”

If you’ve ever received the harsh sting of rebuke and took it to heart then you know how deeply it cuts. 

You feel sick at your gut, all tingly and knotted up inside, and you want to go and crawl in a whole and stay there about a billion years. 

A million things go through your mind. First, how dare they?  Then, how could they? Then, how dare and how could YOU?  For a little while you think you might just decide to call in dead to work.

A narcissist wouldn’t be phased by it at all. He doesn’t care what others think. His skin is Teflon. That’s why he’ll probably live to 100 and still be playing golf on the day he dies. He’ll die the same as he lived. 

But for the rest of us it breaks us. It destroys us. It shatters us into 1,000 little pieces.

And when we’re pieced back together again, we realize we’ve been changed for good.