It was late in the evening of a long day and it had been a very emotionally difficult week when her friend shared an 11-minute video which the friend found very funny. She did not laugh.
“You did not think it was funny?” the friend asked.
“I did not find it funny. It was long and just not my cup of tea,” she could see hurt in her friend’s eyes and it brought up painful emotions around differences they were navigating in their preferences.
Still processing the following morning she wrote in her journal: What might I do differently, if I could do it over?
“You did nothing wrong, Dear One,” was the immediate response she heard in her heart/mind.
She did a bit more writing in her journal and ended the entry with a question, “Is there anything we could/can learn from the exchange?”
Checking email, she immediately recognized the answer to her question arrived in the “Daily Reflection”:
Come back to the place inside you, over and over and over again, where that small seed of faith lies and nurture that seed with the reminder, “We are both right. I am seeing it through my senses and he or she through his or her senses. I do not have to prove them wrong, nor do I have to feel threatened.”
“For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:20-21)