Do you believe in conspiracy theories?
I know a few people who regularly tell me about current conspiracy theories.
One of the weirdest conspiracy theories I heard was that men did not land on the moon in 1969. I watched that landing on TV and it could not have been faked.
Do you ever believe that people you know are conspiring against you or deliberately being nasty to you?
My experience is that people do not conspire against me.
I believe that the world is full of people trying their hardest to make it through the day. Sometimes what they are experiencing causes them to get irritated with the people around them. It is impossible to know how somebody is thinking or to know exactly what caused them to think and feel the way they do at this moment.
In my experience, it is always best to give people the benefit of the doubt. I always try to think the best of everybody and to never think badly of anyone.
It is very easy to think about all the negative things that somebody has said and done, but this is only going to make me feel worse about myself and more antagonistic and resentful.
Building better relationships improves the lives of everybody involved in that relationship. If I am thinking negatively about the person, then the relationship is going to get worse and not better. If I think positively about the other person, then the relationship has a chance of improving, whereas if I think negatively the relationship has no chance of improving.
I try very hard to concentrate on the positive aspects of the behaviour of all my friends and relations. This makes the relationships much more stable and gives the possibility of creating a significantly better relationship.
Geoff Peck from Woosehill Church writing on behalf of Churches Together Wokingham
