What a great day to be alive. Holy smokes. How do you handle being criticized?

I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is The Century Presents. How do you handle being

criticized about your weaknesses or how do you handle being criticized about your flaws or

things even just things people don't like about you? Like how do you handle criticism? How do we,

as Christians, how are we called to handle criticism, especially when it actually hurts? The first thing I have to do

is I have to ask the question, is this true? A lot of times what happens is if someone says something

critical or someone says something just like a lie even, there's part of it that is true.

So if the question is, is this true, that's too broad of a question.

I have to narrow it to ask the question, what part of this is true?

Because I maybe use this example before, but I think sometimes if someone says a lie or

a criticism, if it wasn't true at all, it'd be kind of like a pin, like a pin just goes in and

comes right back out. It might hurt for a second, but as soon as it's pulled out, it's like,

fine, whatever, it's, it's done. That wasn't true. And so it's like a pin. It can hurt for a second,

but it doesn't last. A lot of times with criticism, there's a little bit of truth there. And that little bit of truth

is like the barb at the end of a hook. Right? So like a pin just goes in, comes right back out.

That's it. Might have hurt for a second? Done. But if there's a little bit of truth there,

that's the barb that gets that hook stuck in me. And that's why criticism can hurt so much because maybe

all of it isn't true. But if there's just enough truth that I begin to believe the whole thing,

I believe the whole hook because of the little barb, then I've fallen into this trap. I've fallen

into the trap of believing the lie. I fall into the trap of believing the false part

because of the true part.

So what's an example?

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