One very real problem I see is one of perception...some folks assume that those who still practice respect and discretion toward leadership (which they disdain) must never have experienced real hurt, or if they did, they ran from it rather than handling it courageously.
That just goes to show your lack of understanding. The hurt is there, but it was handled differently, not badly or inappropriately.
I see no reason to drag another person through mud simply because they deserve it. God doesn't give me what I deserve, so how would I ever possess the right to do that to someone else?
It reminds me of the story in Matthew 18:21-35.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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