Don’t Jump to Conclusions but Give the Benefit of the Doubt
The “Come Follow Me” lesson for last week was sections 64 – 66. The theme for section 66 is on forgiveness. It made me reflect back to the talk given in sacrament on the day my family arrived. I believe he said he had based it on Elder Bednar’s talk from the October 2006 General Conference here . The message of the talk was to not take offense. There are many of us who take offence due to the actions or words used by others – or so we suspect. But perhaps the “offender” is not even aware that we were offended. It’s not likely that the “offender” had gone out of his or her way to offend us but more likely that we misinterpreted. I have shared these two examples here and here in which I was the offender. It reminded me of this skit ...