Herein Lies The Peace of God

Photo credit: Edu Lauton Today I was thinking about how much time and energy I used to spend on making others wrong.  I used to read articles on the Internet looking for things to correct in the comments.    I used find things wrong with the grammar, spelling, pronunciation, and opinions of others.  I honestly thought that I was somehow being helpful by pointing out their inadequacies!  I didn't realize it at the time, but I thought that my salvation lay in being right about things.  It was very important to me to get things right - more important than anything else! I used to live in fear of making mistakes, getting things wrong, screwing up. When I did make a mistake - because after all I was only human - I would beat myself up inside, even if no one else thought the mistake was a big deal. I would recall how I screwed up and make myself feel crummy for not having done a better job. And because I was so hard on myself, I felt justified in being hard ...