The Roots of Bitterness

“We cannot prevent birds from flying over our heads, but we can prevent them from building a nest in it”

An ordinary morning, heading to work. I must say that to get to work, I need to take 3 different buses. And that's precisely where I was when a bus arrived and the driver got out. I tried to be as courteous as possible when I said to him: -Good morning, please, are you going to Capri?

And that's when, without me expecting it, he snarled at me, almost roaring, accompanied by a look of hatred -Yes, why?

I froze. -No reason. It was the only response that left my lips.

I stepped aside, and I must confess, for the first time I felt pity for a person who was treating me so poorly. At that moment, only the question crossed my mind as to what reasons that man might have had to be so displeased with life, that he would treat someone in such a way who had addressed him so gently. How many frustrations there could be in that life, how much bitterness, pain, rejection perhaps? Problems in his family, in his marriage, in his relationship with his children, with his coworkers; in short, even his childhood might have been a disaster. What could be in his life that provoked such behavior?

Of course, I knew nothing of that, but what I *was* sure of was what he did not have in his heart. God was not there. What was there did not allow the Spirit of God to penetrate to cleanse and cast out all the accumulated garbage.

I prayed, asking our God to take charge of cleansing that heart which roared on the outside, but which perhaps on the inside was weeping tears.

We shouldn't be surprised by such people. There are many masks on the street. It is your part to pray that those masks be transformed into a smooth complexion by the word of God.

Can't you change a life? Place it in the hands of the One who can, for Him nothing is impossible. Pray and trust.