I was working for a long time friend of mine, but we weren't getting along very well. He seemed to be so different as a boss than as a friend. He was critical, rude an unforgiving at work, and I was at my wit's end. I was about to end both my employment as well as my friendship with him. So I brought up my predicament in Sunday school. I told the class how I was trying my best, but I couldn't seem to please my "former" friend - now my boss, and - quite frankly, I thought he was being a jerk. Of course the class gave me the expected solace - "You need to try harder". "Marc, you need to go to him as a friend and see what is REALLY bothering him."

 About that time a man who rarely said anything in class - an old crotchety retired plumber - sitting in the back of the room grumbled - "Marc, what is it about that guy do you don't like about yourself".

I was speechless!

 The plumber was right. All along I was looking at the log in my friends eye, and I realized, that the answer to my problem was to examine the log in my OWN eye instead. It was me who was being arrogant. It was me who thought I had all the answers. I simply got bent out of shape when he used the authority by given to him by God to make decisions for his own business. Decisions that I didn't like.

It was a lesson I didn't enjoy, but one I needed to learn.
Marc McManeus

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