I wonder if it will EVER end?? What is it with girls/women and drama?? I think, in fact, I KNOW why more often than not I prefer male company. You think it ends in high school? The drama team is just getting cranked up! I see it in my daughter's 4th grade class and I've been watching it since maybe kindergarten. I don't even want to THINK about the Oscar nods that will be going on once she's in high school. You know the old saying, "why can't we all just get along?" well whoever said that was probably a man. I watch my daughter and I see her doing the same things I did when I was that age...knowing full well where she's headed. I feel sure my mom tried to warn me, but I can't for the life of me remember what she said! Hmmmmm...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
So what's the answer??? I tell her to be a leader, not a follower. I say how would Jesus treat that person? I tell her to go join the group and ask them if she can play with them, even if they are ignoring her! I plead with her not to talk to her friends like they are dogs, lest she be treated likewise. I may as well be spitting in the ocean. Nothing is sinking in. If there's anything I've learned from my own mistakes is that people want to be loved. They want to be treated like they are somebody. They want to be accepted. Whether you are nine or fifty-nine. (I'm not that old, I'm just sayin'...)
Maybe it comes with spiritual maturity? I've been hurt enough myself to where I've actually written a song about it. I plan on putting it on the new album. It's called "Betrayed". It hurts to be stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend. I wish wish wish I could tell my daughter that it's ok, this will pass...when you grow up people don't act like that anymore. But alas...not true. They do! But how we respond to it makes aaaaalllll the difference. The hurt might still be there, but grace and forgiveness tend to give us a whole new perspective on things.
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