Be Great in the Midst of Criticism

[MajestyJo]

It has been my experience that criticism is part of life and it is about how you look at it and how you handle it, that makes the difference.

It is also makes a difference if you are giving or receiving it and I have been on both ends. A lot is in the attitude of both and how the words are said. I was a proof reader for years and even had to proof read my bosses work.

I had to learn to not take it all personal, it was the other person's opinion from their point of view. It was for me to look at, accept what was true and reject what was not, and take it to my God and ask for it to be healed and changed. It can be good, often it is something we don't want to address or we have said something the other person doesn't want to believe or apply to their own life.

It is like anger, instead of turning it inward, they are spewing it out and projecting it onto the person they feel is the problem. Often that person or that moment is an accumulation of moments, that has broken the dam and could be rooted in the past and that person isn't available.

You just never know. I have worked with a person that has brought out a lot of things for me, a lot of new awareness, and as she says, "You don't need to know what it is, just know it is there, and let it go."

I can't, God can, who ever you understand God to be.