Yesterday, I was thinking about two types ... the one who becomes a victimizer in the style of those who may have tormented him or her in years gone by ... and the one who uses his or her own victimization as an indirect way of battering another.
Need I say, these are shorthand and generalization of a great many varieties. As I rose this AM, I was remembering a particular style, among the many. This person takes preemptive strikes against their others ... and when the other responds -- even quietly -- they initiate bullying tactics.
"Look what you've done to me!"
"How can anyone be so heartless as to strike out at a poor Soul like me?"
And, indeed, these people do seem to suffer greatly.
As the clock ticks on in the Fourth Quarter, I struggle to have patience for such folk.
Old prayer: O may it be Your will, my God and God of my fathers, to redeem me this day and every day from the arrogant and from arrogance ... from mean spirited men and mean-spirited friends and neighbors ... from destructive occurrences and from those who seek to destroy.
Amen.
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