WHEN THE ROOT IS BITTER, THE FRUIT CAN'T BE SWEET
“When the root is bitterness, imagine what the fruit might be.” - Woodrow Kroll W here does our bitterness come from? I think, it comes from disappointments, self-pity, blame, regrets, guilt, hurts, sadness, envy and anger. There is, always, a reason why we feel bitter in life – about situations and people. The only way to do away with this bitterness is to get in touch with the reason – the root cause, the source of our bitterness. Many a time, we are reluctant to get in touch with the root cause of our bitterness. It takes a great deal of honesty and courage to do that – to look in the mirror, straight. We would rather escape! But, by escaping, the bitterness doesn’t go. It stays back to become poison in our soul! I think, what we call ‘healing’ is the process of overcoming bitterness in life – the disappointments, self-pity, blame, regrets, guilt, hurts, sadness, envy and anger. I, also, think, we have been endow...