I’m still processing this past weekend’s trip to serve the poor with mi familia en México, but this quote was worth sharing…

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

Abraham Lincoln

From a Letter to William H. Herndon. Washington, July 10, 1848

Or as said by another wise person a few years before…

These court cases are an ugly blot on your community. Wouldn’t it be far better to just take it, to let yourselves be wronged and forget it? All you’re doing is providing fuel for more wrong, more injustice, bringing more hurt to the people of your own spiritual family.

Paul

From a Letter to the Christ followers in Corinth

I don’t pretend to know all of what this means for you, but it’s a reminder to me that I get nowhere by holding on to past hurts. It’s in forgiving and loving each other that progress comes.