A married couple planned a tropical vacation, but the wife was on a business trip that prevented her from traveling with hubby. He left without her and they planned to meet in the tropics the following day.
When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. Unfortunately, when typing her address, he mistyped a letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before.
When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:
Dearest Wife,
Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
P.S. Sure is hot down here.
Solomon wrote, “A merry heart does good like a medicine. “Misunderstandings can be hilarious, can’t they?” That is, unless they’re not.
In his book, “The 5 Love Languages”, Gary Chapman writes about the way we communicate love and the misunderstandings that arrive when we express love in our love language to someone whose love language is completely different.
Psychologist William James said that, “Possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated.” Misunderstandings are the bricks in the wall that keep us from appreciating others and being appreciated by others.
The even larger problem arises when we misunderstand God and his love for us and his plans for us. “I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jesus the son and God the Father love you unconditionally, without reservation. God loves you where your are, right now. There’s no misunderstanding that.
