tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715350302811661486.post5987672722167787442..comments2023-04-17T04:28:26.819-05:00Comments on Faith Steps with PastorE: 6:00 am flightsErik Jelinekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13379500320756068697noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715350302811661486.post-18843250841494614982008-04-16T12:41:00.000-05:002008-04-16T12:41:00.000-05:00Pastor E said, "We need to be flexible and open to...Pastor E said, "We need to be flexible and open to different struggles and changes in everything we do, and always celebrate the time we have with our loved ones."<BR/><BR/>That sentence struck me in my present situation. I am a bit put out with my sister. For months, she has been at me to accompany her to a Mel Tillis concert, and I agreed, even though I am not a fan of country music. I would do it for her. <BR/><BR/>Well, the concert is coming up this weekend and I had sent her the money for the bus and show weeks ago. Last Thursday,I got a call/message from the radio station in Hartford, WI who is sponsoring the trip, that they are waiting for their money, and would I please put it directly in the mail if I still wanted to go on the trip!<BR/><BR/>I went immediately to the phone, got my sister's answering machine, and left a message that I had gotten the call from the radio station...and what's up?<BR/><BR/>She never called me back.<BR/><BR/>Friday, I went to my computer and sent her an email, asking her if she was expecting me to pay directly to the radio station and whether she was "sick and tired" of playing the role of middleman with these trips we have taken with the radio station.<BR/><BR/>Again, no response.<BR/><BR/>Saturday morning, at 10:30, I called her again, and got her answering machine. I began a message stating how worried I was, was she not well, or what? That I was going to put the money in the mail to the radio station...<BR/><BR/>When suddenly, she picked up the phone!<BR/><BR/>She says to me, "I'm eating my breakfast!" (Like that was an excuse for not answering the phone.) She never even apologized for worrying me. Didn't seem to pick up on my feelings at all, but just said, "I sent the money in yesterday." We talked, and I let her be who she is.<BR/><BR/>And,things would probably have been okay, except on SUNDAY, (when she finally got around to reading the email I had sent to her on the previous Friday), she zapped one back to me in ALL CAPS saying, "Everything has been taken care of, Betty!" Like I am the dense one. I give up.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, sometimes it's hard to do what Pastor E said, "be flexible and open" when people treat you like you aren't important and don't matter much.<BR/><BR/>I am struggling now with my feelings in relation to my sister. I did email her, telling her how she made me feel. I got an email back, which she probably views as an apology, but it isn't an apology. Her message was,"Well, are YOU perfect? I have a lot of things bothering me right now and I am NOT PERFECT!"<BR/><BR/>Always, with her, 'something is bothering her' and she uses it as an excuse for bad manners. I considered emailing her back, but I prayed instead. I pray for her to move outside of herself, to consider how others are made to feel when they are around her. God knows, I have not been able to move her; maybe He can.Betty Dygarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13228417023345371842noreply@blogger.com