The Destiny Flower: From resenting fate to taking personal responsibility

Willow

Resentment

Resentment

Bitterness, anger, self-pity

For those who have suffered adversity or misfortune and find these difficult to accept, without complaint or resentment, as they judge life much by the success which it brings. They feel that they have not deserved so great a trial, that it was unjust, and they become embittered.

Reflection

Willow reflects bitterness. Unfairness is rehearsed until a person lives as someone life has wronged, and resentment colors what is still good. Paul says to put bitterness away, and to forgive as God in Christ forgave. Forgiveness does not call an injury good. It refuses to let the injury become the center of the soul.

Scripture

Ephesians 4:31-32 (KJV). "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."

Meditation

Lord, I bring You this bitterness. I do not deny the hurt. By the forgiveness You have given me, help me set it down and become tender again.