I have found that those at work who are the most tenderhearted and open with feelings of acceptance of others are the people who in the long run are found to have strong and deep relationships with others. They are also the people who seem to gain the greatest amount of commitment with whom they work. Wouldn’t it be great to have a more accepting and open heart to others who makes mistakes or who are not up to the same performance or standards that we are? In order to be more like this, we have to think back to our grade school science lessons. Remember when we were taught about displacement and how the glass totally full of water would either rise or fall with what was in the glass or not? We learned to displace the water with other objects like rocks, etc. The water would either overflow or go down with the changes of the objects in the glass that were not water. The same can be said of our attitudes. If we want to be more accepting, more tenderhearted, more open to others, then we have to remove something else for these areas to expand. What we have to to do is remove bitterness that takes hold inside of ourselves. Paul tells us this in Ephesians 4:31, “Get rid of all bitterness….”. If we hold onto our bitterness we can never see the attitudes we want grow and be more a part of us. Today, start displacing any bitterness that may be hanging around so that the right attitude can fill the rest of you.

Reference: Ephesians 4:31 (New Living Testament)