A spiderweb is a clever trap that simply waits for a meal to come along and become stuck and entangled.
Other people’s problems are like spiderwebs that entice well meaning onlookers to decide it makes perfect sense to become involved in attempting to extricate spiders from their own webs.
For some reason we believe others to be missing the point we alone so clearly see and must share.
Here’s an experiment for anyone tired of finding themselves the meal on another’s web.
Stop with giving advice.
Express support and concern and offer prayers, but avoid opinions. Permit others to not do things the way you would.
Check back a week or two later and see what has happened. Often you will discover that for some strange reason most problems solve themselves without our interference, and sometimes they turn out better than they often have in the past when we inserted ourselves into them.
And if you are the spider, find another hobby.
Just to let you all know. This post went through the routine publishing process but ended up, according to the stats I received, going out to only eight people. So if you are one of the eight receiving this twice, I'm sorry, and that's the reason. For the rest of you, this is coming a little later in the morning. I read somewhere that nothing works as planned. So true. So True.
That’s ok Ben! I usually read your posts more than once anyway. You are so right. The best advice is not to give advice.