How can you get caught in disappointment when you have a greater purpose in life? When you are devoting yourself to Me, how can you get your foot caught in little traps of the world? So, you expected more from friends, and they didn’t give it to you. What better time than this to put your attention on what you give to Me.
Sometimes you disappoint yourself and feel you have disappointed Me. First of all, I do not deal in disappointment. I deal in love. I do not rail at you, even in My thought. Because you sometimes forget in Whose image you are made is hardly a reason. Be more like Me, and you will not concern yourself with trifles either.
Whether someone says yes or no to you, it is a trifle. It is an aside of life. It is not the main thing. Your heart doesn’t have to be disrupted because you feel one way and someone else feels another. You can feel another way now. You can feel better. You can see that it doesn’t behoove you to honor disappointment and what you see as others’ failings. Let not disappointment be a failing of yours. It can only be a failing.
It is in your mind that someone let you down. If you carry disappointment in your heart, you are letting yourself down. Certainly, were circumstances reversed, you would have said Yes and not disappointed. You would have said Yes without batting an eye. But that is you. And maybe those who hurt your heart by saying no – maybe they would not be so disgruntled as you if an occasion arose when you would say no to them.
They have every right to say no to you. It is you who has no right to be injured.
It is not for you to set standards for others. Who are you to set up a line that no one should cross? Someone will cross it, beloveds. Better you do not set up the line in the first place. Allow people to be what they are without recrimination from you.
You had every right to make your request, and they had every right to say no to your request.
You are not the injured party. Beware that you do not cause injury. Where was it written that it was for you to condemn another because he did not live up to your expectations? Why, it was not even written that you should become peeved. Whatever affront you may perceive, your being affronted is greater.
People give what they can give. They have their own scenario in life. And they have their own gifts. And they have their own lives, whether their lives concur with yours or not.
Contrary to public opinion, I do not give you tests. You create tests for yourself. Rather you see test where it is not. You would not be so disappointed if you did not assume in the first place. Who are you to assume what another’s response will be?
You resent that others are not so gracious to you. Beloved, how gracious are you being right now?
If this were a scene in a play, what script would you write for yourself? Would you play the tragedian? Would you give yourself a sullen script? Perhaps you would give yourself a script where you would go on to bigger and better things. Perhaps you would walk down a lane lined with budding flowers rather than a lane littered with the past. Rather than holding on to hurt feelings, you would let them go.
Admonish yourself for being so sensitive. Let others’ trespasses go. They are only trespasses, and little ones at that. You are the one who made them appear big. Now get them and yourself down to size. Feel better now.