God's Ways of Doing Things

Last October before i took a vacation, it was a Friday, i prepared a mail to my colleague to leave my outstanding jobs. During the briefing of the contents of the mail, my colleague was trying to find faults in the contents, in Chinese, there is a proverb of "picking bones from eggs" which conveys the exact meaning. My intention was only to provide the colleague some traceable information in case when queries arisen from someone involving in these jobs, so i was so furious to question the colleague, "if you don't need the mail, just throw it away", and stopped our conversation.

During the weekend, i felt i was wrong to be extremely angry about the colleague. i remembered that Jesus taught us to let the one who slapped my left face, also allowed to slap my right face. But i didn't have strength to do so, i did the opposite - violence against violence, such way of doing things does not please God. God's ways of doing things are totally different from human's natural ways. God's wisdom is far beyond human's reach, thanks Jesus, Son of God, who has revealed to us that God is love. Thus, God's way of doing things is through love and with love. Violence will definitely be out of the vocabulary of God.

In a Sunday Mass, i confessed the sin. i asked God to give me chance to say sorry in order to reconcile with the colleague. Then the next Monday, before my flight aboard at night, i worked half-day and said sorry to the colleague, asked the colleague to accept my apology. The colleague replied that both of us were in bad mood that day and we are reconciled, thanks be to God!