So I am just now listening to a recovery radio program as I am replying to some threads.
Comentator made an interesting point... he said...
"To remain healthy.... I need to be willing to admit at any time that I am wrong if I am wrong".
To me, this kind of honesty is essential to growth. How much of our life energy do we spend trying to prove we are right without ever stopping to take a moment to take the blinders off and ask the tough questions of whether or not we are simply being narrow minded?
I am going through a tough time with my teenage kids. They believe some things about me that their mother has told them. This type of thing used to hurt me a lot and I would always fall into the tendancy and temptaion to defend myself and plead my case to my kids.
This time feels different. I feel that if I were to try to argue and prove my points to counter the hurtful things they believe, that I may miss some truth in what they are saying.
I am more prone these days to let life unfold, rather than steer peoples thinking to what I currently feel is the truth. Simple truth discovered on its own speaks more loudly than any well-crafted argument.
