“Do not repay evil with evil but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.”
I wanted to postpone this week. I wanted to say that Monday was a free day, that I would start being noble tomorrow — because today I want to take revenge. Today, I want to give someone what she deserves. I want to treat her like she treated me. The cultural rewriting of the Golden Rule.
To live nobly: “showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.”
Fine personal qualities.
High moral principles.
Making her experience the same kind of pain she caused me.
Which one of these things does not belong?
Live nobly, universally.
Fine. I will love and respect her, treat her like a sister in Christ and express the way that she has hurt me so that we can be reconciled in truth.
But know that I would rather perpetuate hurt.
So is my fallen humanity.
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