Too often we slip into the feeling that “It’s all about me.”
Roadworkers arrive and begin setting up equipment in the neighborhood. They are doing it specifically to annoy me.
Someone fails to show for a lunch appointment. They did it just to spite me.
Maybe the situation has nothing to do with us. Maybe when viewed from the perspective of the other person—they are merely showing up to do the repair work required; they had a crisis large or small with work or family and couldn’t make lunch.
As a wise person said, “Don’t worry about what people are thinking about you, because they are not thinking about you.”
Often when Jesus was asked about something, he tried to get the person to divert focus from within themselves and their prejudices and their rules in order to gain the bigger perspective of seeing life from other’s points-of-view.
Perhaps that is a good discipline to cultivate.
Faith Venture 
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