Recently, I had an incident with a woman at church. She was under a lot of stress and I was her nearest target when she decided to blow. She stuck her finger in my face and started a baragge of misinformed accusations. If I had listened, I would know what was going on. She specifically told me this etc. I asked her very sweetly in front of a lot of people to please remove her finger from my face. I then said that what she didn't realize was that this one particular person who everyone trusts- no names, sent me to change the protocol- we needed to adjust our plan because it wasn't working. She said a few ill words turned and walked away.
I was in confession the next day talking to the priest about the incident. He said,I don't know why you feel bad. I told him to wait... You see... I gave her my finger behind her back when she left and no one was looking. Ohhhhh- he said... Well.... let's see....
A couple of days later, a parent at my new school came up to me and said, I saw how you handled that lady with her finger in your face. My heart was pounding. Oh great, why did I have to flip off this woman in the first place and then not realizing it in front of a parent. She told me how wonderful I handled it and how she had a confrontation with her just before me. (Whew- she didn't see my finger).
I was able to apologize for this finger pointing woman and defend her.
The priests penance sentence for me was to do something nice for the finger pointing woman without notice since what I had done was without notice. I needed to picture her at her best and bring her up in my thoughts.
I hadn't done anything yet but God gave me the woman from my school to complete the penance. But now that I shared this with you, I have notice so I guess I owe her another good deed:)
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