{"id":524,"date":"2009-01-06T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-10-10T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T21:39:50","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-you-meet-someone-who-has-wounded-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/what-do-you-do-when-you-meet-someone-who-has-wounded-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Do When You Meet Someone Who Has Wounded You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pun341-animated-broken-heart-gol-2\"Several years ago I went through an experience not unlike what a lot of people go through.\u00a0 But for me, the biggest loss was the friendships<\/span> that I had, that I lost overnight for reasons I couldn\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

Over the last two and a half years I\u2019ve met some of the people who we had pledged our never-dying love to.\u00a0 We had done great work together and traveled many a lonely road together.\u00a0 But last week, I met one of the best friends I\u2019ve ever had in the world<\/span> who, one day would step in front of a bullet for me, and the next day was on the other side, looking at me from a distance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been over two and a half years since we\u2019ve met or talked, and I saw this friend in public, in a restaurant.\u00a0 As I walked by, I suspected it was him. I stopped at the door and lingered for a moment and realized it was him.\u00a0 I went to my truck and sat there for a few minutes and thought, \u201cYou know what, this guy abandoned me.\u00a0 He owes me an apology,\u201d <\/em>and all the other really stupid things we say to ourselves when we\u2019re mad or hurt.\u00a0 But something inside me said, \u201cThis is a good man.\u00a0 We\u2019ve loved each other well as brothers. We\u2019ve fought many battles, encouraged each other, and lifted each other over many years.\u00a0 And just because we\u2019re no longer in each other\u2019s lives doesn\u2019t mean that what happened before all of the foolishness wasn\u2019t real and still isn\u2019t something for which I give God all the glory.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So I got up, went in, walked up to him, gave him a hug, and told him<\/span> what I should\u2019ve told him more often when we were together: that I love him, he\u2019s been an amazing impact on my life, he\u2019s helped me in more ways than he\u2019ll ever know, he was there for me in so many ways, and I was glad to be able to say I was there for him.\u00a0 When he was down, I was up.\u00a0 When I was down, he was up.\u00a0 When he bemoaned the injustices he went through, I was there to try to encourage and vice-versa.<\/p>\n

When I walked away from that encounter, though we\u2019ll probably never be \u201cfriends\u201d again, I still remember him and smile<\/span>.\u00a0 How about you?\u00a0 Life is too short to harbor grudges.\u00a0\u00a0 And if you\u2019re a Christian, you can\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a part of what we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several years ago I went through an experience not unlike what a lot of people go through.\u00a0 But for me, the biggest loss was the friendships that I had, that I lost overnight for reasons I couldn\u2019t understand. Over the last two and a half years I\u2019ve met some of the people who we had … Continue reading “What Do You Do When You Meet Someone Who Has Wounded You?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}