I am not a violent person but sometimes I just want to stab some people in the jugular. OK so that was a little bit of an exaggeration but I can’t stand when people act everyday like you are the one that peed in their Cheerios, crapped in their shoes or did some other vile, disgusting thing to them that would make them act nasty toward you. I have to remind myself that life is different without Christ in it. I have to realize that living a life everyday without any real hope has got to be depressing and frustrating. Sometimes I think that we have to forget we have Christ to have some sort of perspective of where people are coming from.  So instead of lashing out and returning ugly for ugly I have decided to repay meanness with so much stinking kindness that they can’t even stand to be around me. I figure that is a win-win. If they see the difference in me it might just be contagious. If it repulses them and they stay away well…  We talked about the turn the other cheek scripture a few weeks ago and I found an interesting twist in a commentary when researching it. If a Roman soldier hit you with an open hand and you retaliated it would be punishable by death. Often times this would be a way of provoking people so they would have a justification to eliminate them. This commentator argued that by Jesus telling people to turn the other cheek it was a way of antagonizing the soldiers. I don’t know if this is true or not but today I find myself antagonizing nasty people with kindness. This is probably wrong and I will have to repent about it but at this moment it is either that or responding to nastiness with nastiness. So I am smiling as I turn the other cheek today and it’s not because I am mooning them.