Liars

Happy Monday everyone!

How are you all doing on this fabulous Monday? All is well here. What a busy weekend John and I had. What about you guys? How was your weekend? Shoot me a text or drop me a comment, I always love hearing from you.

So, John and I have been on quite the adventure as far as life is concerned. We have encountered more than what we believe is our fair share of hiccups to say the least. I guess God knows better though, because He seems to know that somehow, we are handling it.

John compares life sometimes to being in a Job moment. Job endured many years of hardship, and he remained faithful to God. John is certainly a man of God and always tries to implement his faith in his daily life, even when life tosses us, tosses him countless curve balls. John always does his best to let go and let God. He gives credit to God, and he calls upon God each and every day to give him strength and understanding, something I am working on. I am reminding myself daily to follow John’s example and let go and let God.

Job 1:1 describes Job this way: Job was a blameless and righteous man who feared God and shunned evil. He was wealthy, well respected, and had a large family. But most importantly, he had strong integrity and a personal relationship with God. Job wasn’t just a good guy—he was a godly man. –https://www.byfaithnotbysight.blog/how-jobs-faith-kept-him-at-peace-within-his-suffering.

Today I had to rely on God in a way that I knew was important. The mama bear wanted desperately to give someone a piece of my mind. One of my sons called me today and was coming across as angry yet knowing this man longer than anyone else in this world, aside from God that is, I knew he was struggling more with having his integrity called out by someone who knows very little about a situation and how things work. Let me back up and explain.

My sons are contractors. They do water/fire/wind and mold remediation. My son is well known in his field of expertise. He is very well respected by the claims adjusters he works with, and I couldn’t be prouder of him.

He received a call from someone he is close to. This woman had a flood to her home. My son has taken time away from other jobs to help this woman out. She’s in her late 60’s and is a widow. My son has his best guys ready to begin repairs and because this woman did most of her content packing, she gets the money for her time. She decided to do a lot of upgrades to her home since this is her forever dwelling. With the content money she’s received, she’s able to afford the upgrades not covered by her policy. Simple. Nope. Her daughter decided to get involved.

When things were broken down for the daughter and everything checked out, her reply to her mother was, I have guys who can do it for a fraction of the cost, and you can pocket more money. Well, this isn’t how things work when you hire a licensed contractor. My son has to do things according to code and law. He told the woman he’d give her back all the money she’s paid thus far towards her job if she wanted to go handyman instead of contractor. The woman said no, she wanted my son to handle everything because she trusts him. The daughter told my son he was ripping off her mom.

Thank goodness my son has me to vent to and he has the intelligence to be able to handle conflict with folks. His degree in communications is paying off. Anway, the daughter then proceeds to tell people that she was only questioning my son. She lied.

When someone lies about you and tries to tint your reputation, it stings. My son is a strong man and I’m beyond proud of how he handled the entire situation. He took someone with him, and he met up with both the woman and her daughter. The daughter apologized and he accepted it, but this mama can tell, he’s still hurt, and it hurts me to think someone could make false accusations about my son.

I know having someone lie about someone isn’t a foreign thing. It happens all the time, but when it happens to our child, my child, I want to protect him. I know all you mamas out there can relate. Sadly though, we can’t always bring out our inner mama bears. We can only hope we’ve raised decent human beings who are not only smart and intelligent, but who also have the love of God within them and can find their way to being the bigger person. Being the man or woman of God and showing their accuser grace. My son did just this and it melted my heart. My son accepted the daughter’s apology and he’s starting work tomorrow at the mom’s house.

Even though I was angry with this woman’s daughter, it wasn’t my place to butt in. I’m just so grateful that my son trusted me enough to share his problem with me, even though he’s a grown man. I did ask if he talked to his wife. “Of course, mom, she was working though and I didn’t want to distract her, but I did take her to lunch, so we were able to talk.”

The scripture below reminded me that the hurt this woman’s daughter placed upon my son’s heart isn’t for me to fix. I need to leave it in God’s hands to make matters right in all areas. The scripture gave me comfort knowing that the battle wasn’t for me. The battle that belonged to my son never saw warfare, instead, the daughter apologized, and my son accepted it. He truly is the better person and the bigger man.

My lesson today was to hope in the Lord and today, He renewed my strength.

My wings will continue to soar as I grow in my faith. I will run and not grow weary knowing He has things handled. I might need more reminders of His never-ending love for me and that’s okay. He will humble me. He will show me the stumbling blocks in my world, and He will continue to help me spread my wings.

My son told me that through is conversation with the woman’s daughter she was trying to make him the bad guy. He said to me, “it’s amazing to me how she believes her lies. Her lies are her truth and that’s scary.”

I think my son’s right; the most dangerous liars are those that believe their lies. I wonder if and what kind of sickness this would be? Thoughts? Why do you think people lie about others? Why do you think people want to hurt and damage others? What could possibly motivate someone to do such a thing, the within hours apologize while excusing their actions? This sure does baffle my mind. I’d love some feedback from you all.

At the end of the day, my son took the high road. He kept his composure, and he accepted an apology, and he Let Go and Let God.

I’m so glad things ended on a nice note. I’m most certain my son is tucked away in his bed not even giving this a second thought, but my mama heart still hurts for the pain he felt today.

And on that note, I’ll leave you with this

Until next time, don’t forget, Love Life++ Hugs.