Asking for Healing

[Rolypoly]

I was going to post this in prayer intentions but because I am also asking for advice I will post it here.

I don’t quite know what came over me this past week. In real life I am rather reserved and shy but here in cyberspace I got a surge of “Internet zeal.” Over the past week I made a few posts here on CAF wherein I was very narrow-minded. In trying (poorly) to get my point across I’m afraid I alienated and hurt people. Not only those I was talking to, but those who will come across this website in the future. Fortunately the mods deleted one of the threads. I don’t ask for prayers for forgiveness because I plan on going to confession to take care of that. I only ask prayers to heal the Body of Christ of the damage that has been done by my irresponsible words. I also ask for advice as to what else I should do to remedy the situation. Thank you all.

 

[Morwenna]

Hi RP, I haven’t read any of your posts that I can recall, so I’m just responding based on what you’ve written above.

I think this post is a very nice gesture. If you would like anyone specific to see it, you might consider sending a PM to those posters with a link to this thread, or just send a nice message to them by PM with the same sentiments you’ve expressed here. I think that most CAFers would react very favorably to such a gesture. :yup:

As far as avoiding this in the future: It’s very easy for emotions to run high on the internet, and the ‘instant’ nature of communication can allow us to say things that we later regret. Maybe you could consider writing up your post in a Word doc and letting it sit there for a specified period of time (15 minutes? 30 minutes? more?), and then going back to re-read it again before you actually post it. Sometimes giving yourself a ‘cooling off’ period like this can be a good idea … you may decide to edit what you’ve written, or not post at all, after you’ve taken some time to cool off.

Best wishes to you, RP, and I admire you for making this post.

 

[ready]

You could send a PM to any person you may have hurt with your posts, and apologize to them. Then try to forget about what happened, except try consciously to always be gentle and charitable in the future.

 

[the_phoenix]