I was outside pulling weeds and I thought of this, it is purely human terms and feelings.
My granddaughter, who has always been full of sunshine, loves everyone. She excuses people who have willfully hurt her, it is just her nature and she is still like that even as a teenager.
But there was one incident in her life when she was about 5 that she has never been able to forgive or forget,she really struggles with it.
She was at the Drs. office with her mother when a man in a wheel chair came to the door. My DIL jumped up and opened the door for the man. Something about that infuriated him and he called my DIL foul names that you can’t even imagine. It was so bad that the receptionist called the police and they came and arrested him.
Anyway, my sunshiny granddaughter will still cry if this is ever spoken of. We have had a hard time convincing her that she should hope that he is in Heaven now.
She, herself has been disrespected by others and treated less than perfectly and she handles that with aplomb but she still can’t imagine how someone could call her perfectly, wonderful mother such awful things and treat her so disrespectfully.
To honor one’s parents is Biblical, and it is human nature to honor those who love you. I truly wonder how Jesus feels about love and honor given to His Mother being called blaspheme.
Very tender explanation.