Aching

Sometimes when you're a mama, or a friend or a wife or a person in a relationship, you have to "hurt" someone to take care of them: anything from removing a wart to confronting an addiction or taking out a splinter to taking another to task about a hurtful behavior. It's a horrible, horrible feeling, but at these moments we can stand firm in peace if it is done in love. So many, many times we "correct" others, or we "give the truth" or "tell it like it is" from a place of pride, or vindictiveness, or pettiness, or whatever. Remember, mama, to speak and act from love and humility, remembering we all stand in desperate need of mercy.