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Post by revmichael on Jun 5, 2007 6:30:00 GMT
An apology is a good way to have the last word.
(Author Unknown)
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Post by Mo Termouth on Jun 5, 2007 6:36:25 GMT
As you said in the other thread saying sorry is probably the hardest word to say. My 2 sisters have fallen out over some silly misunderstanding and neither will say sorry. I have tried to get them talking but neither will budge. So sad.
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Post by revmichael on Jun 5, 2007 6:44:48 GMT
As you said in the other thread saying sorry is probably the hardest word to say. My 2 sisters have fallen out over some silly misunderstanding and neither will say sorry. I have tried to get them talking but neither will budge. So sad. Yes Mo. I always think it is very sad when both people say, 'I'm not going to be the first to speak.' Someone has to break the ice - and it seems so difficult to do. My father never spoke to his youngest sister after his mother died in 1938 until the day he died in 1976. The argument was over a bone china tea service that both said their mother promised they could have. It sat there, shut up in a glass cabinet in our living room from 1938 until after my dad died. It was never used - just squabbled over. Resolving conflict often takes a very long time - if it is ever resolved. Someone has to humble themselves and make the first move.
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Post by Mo Termouth on Jun 5, 2007 7:18:20 GMT
Just spoke to my Mum and my 2 sisters are now talking. They saw each other when walking their dogs and one said to the other one 'long time no see' and they started walking together and chatting. I thank God for prayers answered. ;D
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Post by revmichael on Jun 5, 2007 7:52:50 GMT
Just spoke to my Mum and my 2 sisters are now talking. They saw each other when walking their dogs and one said to the other one 'long time no see' and they started walking together and chatting. I thank God for prayers answered. ;D That's wonderful news Mo. It seems that God used those dogs to bring them together again. I'm not a betting man, but I bet they've both been looking for the opportunity to be right with one another again. Why are we so slow to do the right thing - the thing we want to do? Perhaps an apology is a good way to START again, as well as to have the last word.
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Post by Rosie Lee on Jun 5, 2007 22:25:39 GMT
I like this comment "An apology is a good way to have the last word", very good life's too short for arguments.
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