I have a confession

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A friend at work recently got bad news. It is the type of news I get all the time and know the frustration of going through it again

Well, when he told me, secretly inside I was happy. Cool someone else can have a turn at this misery. but I acted sympathetic on the outside. They I started to get insulted that I was not the perfect person to cheer him up. I was worrying more about my ùnderstanding reputation` than his feeling better.

I know that is a very unpious thing to think and the sad truth of the matter is I don`t even feel that guilty about my opinion. My only concern is I might have fooled him but I sure did not fool God.

Please pray God gives me a good heart

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[aborodki]

I will def. pray for you, though i have read in the article that something like that is not uncommon. I am well aware that normalcy doesn’t mean virtuous. But we all are human here.

 

[Trishie]

Okay, you’re honest about yourself which is good, and is a beginning for the process for becomes an authentic Christian.

Play the situation over in your mind with you thinking and acting in a different way, the way you should have.

I say that because if you do this after any similar failure you can help the process of retraining your internal responses.

I would ask God’s pardon for not caring about the true good of another person, whom God also dearly loves,
and pray for the man…an act of charity towards him.

And seek the grace of God in Confession, desiring to grow in authenticity as a Catholic Christian as you obviously wish to do.

God bless you!