Honey or Vinager

I always have gotten a kick out of some of the old sayings. You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar for example. Well who the heck wants to catch flies anyway? I don't know if that has been tested out or not because who would want to attract flies? I get the principle though. Choose your actions to attract those that you want to be attracted to you. The picture is a picture from our early years with our four grandchildren. Marsha, with her obsessive compulsive side, had to make matching outfits for one picture. I have loved our relationship with our grandchildren even now as they are either grown up or nearly so. I hope that we chose behaviors that made us attractive to them. I know they chose behaviors that made them attractive to us. Today is Cassie's birthday and I want all of them to know that they are loved beyond question but especially Cassie on this special day. Perhaps I have not been as diligent in making those same choices with everyone in my life, but I know God wants me to be an attractive witness to others without giving up the need to live in his will. It was so easy with our grandkids and can be a challenge at other times with other people. Perhaps it is because I don't see that God wants me to love others with the same love, love without question, that I apply to my grandkids. Love without question for all of humanity might be a challenging effort, but love them we must. Love the person even at the same moment that we might hate their behavior. That's honey living. I never liked vinegar anyway.