Take a minute to think about your experiences doing business during your day. I would daresay that the overall majority of your business dealing go forward positively and satisfactory, but how often do you praise the businesses and individuals beyond a quick thank you as you conclude the business dealing? My guess is that most of us do not go out of our way to praise. On the contrary, think back to the businesses dealings that did not go well, which is likely not very many overall. We are very likely to express our displeasure, often including going to a manager/supervisor or submitting a complaint/bad review on the web.
Now making issues with poor service or poor quality may be appropriate, but shouldn't we be just as likely to praise another for positive efforts? What kind of society do we live in that seems to value tearing people down? Was the issue you are complaining about really that bad? Is the person you are complaining about really trying to hurt you? Our actions affect others, not just the big things, but the little things too. Often we are too obsessed with making sure our needs are meant to perfection without regard for the other people "getting in the way."
The people in our lives certainly should be doing things the right way but we need to be quick to praise and slow to complain. Often complaints and negative feedback will frustrate people, causing further mistakes and issues. Positivity can do wonders for your health and the health and performance of those around us, try it, it is a great feeling!
John 8: 1-11
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
---------------------Picture found at founds***.com---------------------------------------
