One of my Facebook friends had a recent post that made me laugh:

Grrrrrrr. People. They’re everywhere!

No doubt she’d had a tough day interacting with “difficult people” and wanted to be alone.

I image most of us feel that way from time to time. Nobody gets along well with everybody.

Several behaviors often appear on my “pet peeve” list. Don’t misunderstand: I actually like people who have these traits. But sometimes, like my friend, after interacting with these people I just want a short vacation from the human race. Here are just two pet peeves:

1. Promising. “I’ll get that to you right away,” some people will say, but they never do. These people are forever going to get back to you about something, but it never happens. They may be well-intended, but their follow-through is horrible.

2. Faking. Some might call this behavior “know it all.” Ask if people know about “x,” and they nod their heads in the affirmative, but you can tell from their facial expression the only thing they know is how to spell the words.

The sad part is that I know that “There but by the grace of God go I.” Or, to boil it down, at times I can be guilty of these things myself.

Grrrrrrr.

It’s really easy to see the flaws in others. The difficulty lies is seeing the flaws in ourselves, and then—because we would hope that others would show grace toward us—choosing to extend grace to them, even when they’re showing us their flaws.

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