Criticism

Proverbs 28:23, "In the end, people appreciate honest criticism more than flattery."

Over the weekend, Sarah, Mandy, Paul, and I were talking about this bible verse. Paul was telling us about how when he is reading reference forms he doesn't count any forms that are completely praising the person and not telling of any of their weaknesses. Paul was also saying that he shares this bible verse a lot during Staff Training Week.

It's hard when someone tells someone else that they are doing something wrong. It can include criticizing the way someone is dressed, the way someone is handling a situation, the way the work was done, or so many other ways. When someone is criticizing me and telling me that I'm doing something wrong, I get very offensive and sometimes I get mad at them for correcting me. I end up feeling stupid. I also feel bad that I'm not doing whatever it is the right way. I think that there is a point where criticizing needs to stop. It can't go too far to where someone is always feeling down because there are people constantly criticizing them. It needs to be balanced out with a healthy portion of criticism I guess. All of us need to try to become accepting when someone offers advice on how to better ourselves. Just think, without criticism we wouldn't know how to do something more effectively or improve our image to the image of Jesus. It gets hard criticizing others, but sometimes we need to know what we're doing wrong so we don't keep on continuing on getting nowhere.

Yay to criticism. lol