Accepting the truth and correction

[guanophore]

Is it wrong to feel hurt, slighted or upset?

No.

Feelings are not morally good or bad, right or wrong. They are part of your human nature, just like your big toe. Now if someone stepped on your toe, would you say it was “wrong” for it to feel hurt?

What matters is what is done with one’s feelings. We are taught not to let the sun go down on our anger, because holding resentment and unforgiveness is like drinking poison, and expecting the other person to die. We only poison ourselves with it.

Felling hurt, slighted, and upset says much more about you than it does about the other person. It tells you that an injustice has been done, and that it is wounding.

If a person has insulted the Church, then they have insulted Christ, and you have been privileged to feel some of His pain.

Such feelings are a call to prayer. When we pray for those who insult and abuse, we invite the Holy Spirit in between us. We can be healed and we can pray for their conversion.

We are to overcome our feeling if it is one to discourage or trouble our life.

I think this is a very good point. Sometimes God allows us to experience such painful feelings as a way to show us that we need to overcome things in ourselves that may be barriers to our spiritual progress.

 

[Seeksadvice]

I would think that it would depend on the situation, and the nature of the advice.

 

[crenfro]

Hello.

Just accept the truth and go on to do what you’re supposed to, and it’s okay to feel the humiliation muscles becoming a bit mortified. Humility is one of the best virtues. We are the children, God is the Father.

Humility is accepting things as they are, it is not obsequiousness.