What To Do...

[Annie12]

A few months ago I was very hurt by some people I had thought were my friends and have known for more than 6 years. I was deffending traditional marriage when one of them became very mad at me. She made me seem like a mean bigot and scoled me for having my beliefs. Ever since that incedent, I have felt alienated from my school. The scene was on a scocial media site and Im afraid I may have unitensionaly hurt a gay person that I know. I know that as Christians we are going g to have to face percecution, but I have been emotionaly scarred from that ecounter. I have felt also that I failed that disscussion. How should I go about healing from this incedent?

[CatherineM]

I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of stupid things I did or said when I was your age. I'm 50 years old, and I catch myself occasionally thinking about one of them and wishing I could go back and change what I did or handle it differently. Unfortunately I can't, and neither can you. All we can do is learn from it, and also learn to forgive ourselves.

There's a line in the middle of Groundhog Day where Bill Murray is debating whether or not he is a God, and says that maybe God is just someone who has been around forever and therefore knows everything. I don't think that's the case obviously, but it is the reason I seem so wise. I've made every mistake imaginable, but have tried to learn something from each one.

You can't take back what you said, or rather how you said it, so just relax. Apologize to anyone you may have offended, but not for what you said. It's okay to have a difference of opinion, no matter what the PC police may say. If you lose friends, get used to it. I think we facing a real cultural war, and we are all going to have to choose between what is right and what is easy as one of my favorite characters said.