My Own Advice, D'oh

The sting of realizing that your own advice is not being followed is certainly a Homer Simpson moment.

 I recently challenged a couple hundred people with the thought of fighting for relationship, pushing past the difficulties and fighting for restoration. I was encouraging everyone with a life lesson from my mom, who would often seek out reconciliation. She wasn't perfect at it, but the principle was there and I was often reminded to forgive and to seek forgiveness. As for not following my own advice, I have been running from relationship and seeking solitude. Using disagreement and theological differences of the smallest form to create space, I was looking for a way out of several situations. I will have to continue to evaluate the motivation of my heart in those situations, but in any case my responsibility and initial motivation should be to fight for relationship. It is what my mom would suggest and I think it is what is right. (Matthew 5:23-24, Ephesians 4:2-3)

Now one to another Homer S. moment, I am getting a donut.

Ardog