Day and Night

What laws am I obedient to?  What laws should I be obedient to?

"Experiment: Select a difficulty in your life or some situation with which you are struggling.  Work at changing your attitude by recognizing to what law it it you must be obedient in order to move beyond the problem.  In your prayers about this difficulty ask for greater capacity to be lovingly and joyfully obedient to this higher law" "Experiments In Practical Spirituality"

 I am having an extremely difficult time with a woman, more of a girl really at work.  She used to be the most talkative person; even to the point of being irritating. Now she speaks to virtually no one except for the management and one person in the department.  Every time I see this person I feel like sneering.  Her choice to deliberately exclude people, in some cases, might be considered bullying.

From an article called: "Workplace Bullying: Applying Psychological Torture at Work" by Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D.

"What are some of the tactics bullies use in the workplace?...
The Silent Treatment. Often a bully and his or her "inner circle" will ostracize victims to the extent of completely ignoring them - refusing to even acknowledge their presence. In other instances, the bullies will stop talking when the victim enters the room, but perhaps continue talking in hushed tones with furtive looks at the victim, giggling and/or making disapproving grunts. You know, the same kind of tactics used in the schoolyard."

I have chosen this small difficulty in my life will start working at my attitude by recognizing to what law I must be obedient to to move beyond the problem.

Perhaps I fool myself when I think I live by the following:

" Luke 10:25-28

²⁵And one day an authority on the law stood up to put Jesus to the test. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to receive eternal life?” ²⁶What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you understand it?” ²⁷He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Love him with all your strength and with all your mind.’(Deuteronomy 6:5) And, ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ ”
²⁸“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do that, and you will live.”.

I used to speak to the girl every morning when I came in to work.  I no longer do that.  If I were truly living by the "Golden Rule", I would continue to speak to hear whether she spoke to me or not.  It seems that I am living by some rule that protects my ego by getting even by acting in the same way she does.  It is, however, becoming nearly impossible for me to bring myself to speak to her.  I find myself disliking her extremely, despising her for having the audacity to be so rude that she feels she can sit in isolation and speak to no one.

I will start praying that God and Jesus will give me an answer to this....

The day after I wrote this blog the girl started talking again!