What are resentments and how do they affect us? When we relive, rethink and refeel old hurtful interactions over and over, we are building a resentment. From the Latin, resent literally means to rethink and refeel. Have you ever been so angry at someone that you just relived their behavior over and over in your mind, formulating the perfect comeback? That is a resentment. The more we replay it, the more hurtful it becomes.

The other person only hurt us once, but we blame them for every time we hurt ourselves by reliving it. Until one day, all we can remember is that we were perfectly behaved and they acosted us. At this point, we have full assumed the victim role and no longer have any power over changing things. We are stuck in a rut, generating resentful, self-damaging energy, and feeling powerless and like a victim.

The only way to get out of this rut and move on is to let the sunlight of the spirit into your perception of events. Here at the First Church of Humanity, we do this through spiritual inventory in the Sunlight of the Spirit Project. We look at each of our resentments and then allow someone else to tell us what they see. This new perspective almost always breaks up the spiritual blockage of our resentment and let's the sunlight back in.

If you need help getting out of a rut, we are here to serve you.