Powerfully using insults…from prickly balls to marshmellows!

I wonder what you do when someone is intolerant or rude to you. I used to get upset or react becoming intolerant with their intolerance…However, this week when I experienced intolerance, I didnt react, but turned straight to Wisdom for help and perspective. What I saw in my minds eye was that I had been thrown a black ball that was full of prickles that obviously represented the intolerance. I realized I could choose to catch it and hold it letting the prickles sink into my hand and eventually my heart and mind bringing more pain, or I could throw it back to the person, which may have added more pickles, insults, to this ball, which would probably be thrown back at me yet again. The other option was to deal constructively with this prickly ball of insults, by allowing it to by pass me and direct it to the Cross, offering it with Jesus and his pain to help a young woman I knew who was suffering in great physical pain for many weeks. I chose to allow this prickly ball to roll over my hands and then mentally directed it at the foot of the Cross. I was amazed when I immediately felt released, free and at peace. Thinking of insults as prickly balls has given me a greater awareness of what will happen if I hold on to insults and better yet it has been a great source of help to those who are suffering. I discovered, a week after I had begun to place these prickly balls at the foot of the cross, that the person I had done this for had improved greatly and had been able to leave the pain clinic! Another advantage has been the change in the person who was throwing the prickly balls at me. I am now catching balls from them that are like marshmallows. What a change. Try doing the same and see the wonderful results. Enjoy this wonderful adventure of learning, changing and growing. Helen