The other day I tried one more time to make peace with someone with whom I had had a falling-out two months ago.

I sent a short email stating I still love and forgive her (love as a Christian should love another Christian) and I had accepted her decision to not do something that her partner had said she would try to get done.

My email was met with a long screed of all my personal faults as this person sees them.

She thought my request for peace with her was a request for peace with the Lord. My peace doesn’t come from any person but from the Lord Himself, and I have been at peace with the Lord and myself since I first apologized for any real or perceived hurt I have caused this person.

I have confessed my sins in this event to the Lord and I feel I have done everything He has asked me to do to be in His will.

I answered the email even though she had asked me not to email her again because I wanted her to know she was mistaken in her assumption I thought my peace is dependent upon her acceptance of my apology and my attempt to make peace with her.

I am now going to quote the entire last email I received from her:

FYI - I knew you couldn’t do it!

My husband is right. You aren’t a Christian.

That’s why appealing to your Christian spirit won’t work.

I did not read this email. Nor will I - Get thee behind me, Satan!

The “I knew you couldn’t do it” refers to my answering her email.

Oddly enough, this email didn’t hurt my feelings or make me feel less secure in the Lord.

No person has the right to judge the state of another person’s soul or Christianity if they profess Christianity. And no one has the right to call any other person Satan. That name is reserved for one being and he isn’t human.

I pray for K because I feel she has been deceived by her own illusions. She said God told her not to have anything to do with me and insinuates that I contact her just to stir the pot.

Nothing could be further from the truth and she’s not a mind-reader. I contacted her because I didn’t want long-simmering hard feelings between two people, and it’s as simple as that. I asked her for no favors, though she thinks I did.

A short email to me would have sufficed or she could have ignored it as she has so many other emails from me.

I have not and I will not respond to her latest email and I will let God sort it out.

36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. Luke 6:36-38