Finding Strength in Stinging Moments
By Meg Bucher "But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." - 2 Corinthians 12:9-11 NIV My daughter's tears flowed as she recalled a stinging season of bullying. I was glad to be her safe place in that moment. We should all have someone safe to whom we can vent our raw emotions. In that pocket of peace, we held each other accountable to the truth of the matter. This wasn't a return of the stinging season of bullying, so she and I had to choose to not get swept back into past hurts from which she had already healed. So, instead of matching condemnation and criticism, my daughter decided to grip onto grace. The hurt was real. The disappointment was disheartening. Deep down, we all want people to like us! We need to be loved, and so rejection naturally stings. Those feelings are not only OK, they are normal. What we do with them, is everything. Do we match condemnation and criticism, or do we grip onto grace? It won't be the last time my daughter, nor I, deal with a mean quip accompanied by an overdramatic delivery. But in each and every opportunity, we can choose to let grace guide us. | 
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