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Do I care more about being right... or being righteous?

Confessions of a Genevieve: I am an angry, unforgiving, prideful b*%@#. Last I checked, those things are not   fruit of the Spirit ... I can talk a fairly good " grace game " but when it comes to my inner thoughts, I can be pretty snarky.  Someone took something that was mine.  I KNOW for a fact it's mine  (notice my pride in not allowing for the possibility that I might be wrong?) Honestly, I barely miss the thing and it would be so easy to replace. It's the principle of the thing! But that's not the point.   Even if I got it back, I'd still be mad because of my perception of how I've been badly treated  (I've done a really good job at ignoring my arrogance in this situation). My reaction is revealing the true state of my heart. I'm not responsible for what they've done. But I am very responsible for how I react to it.  And that part isn't going so well. Jesus totally addressed stuff like this