I really hope.

I can't believe the level of manipulation some people will sink to in order to get their way.   I've been dealing with this person's manipulations most of my life.  It's always the same; if I dare to stand up to this person then everyone looks at me as though I am just plain selfish and evil.  Yet it's this person who manipulates, even faking issues and lies, just to get their way.  And I'm supposed to just excuse the behaviour, "that's just the way they are."  Well, they are that way because everyone keeps making excuses for them!

I'm really upset, I mean REALLY upset because this time it might cause not just my plans to be changed, again, but this time it might cause me to not be able to spend time with someone I love very much.  Someone who if I don't get to spend time with them now, I might never get the chance again.

But the manipulator/liar has done it again.  I'm hoping and praying, yes, praying, that I am wrong and I will get to spend time with the person I really want to spend time with. 

But isn't that what most people do today, they lie, they manipulate, they fake, all to get what they want, whether it be a promotion, a boyfriend/girlfriend, a job, a new dress, a new........  whatever, you get the picture.  

I really hope we don't ALL do that.  I really want to believe that there is still a nice big bunch of us that do right, that work hard, try our best to be honest, and to deal truthfully with whatever life throws at us.  I'm not saying I'm perfect, then I would be a liar!  But whatever I get in my life, where ever I go, I want to do so honestly, either by honest, hard work, or by my Father's favor and grace!  Not because I manipulated, lied, faked my way there.  But no, I'm not perfect.  It doesn't stop me from hoping there are more of the honest, hard working kind of people, than the other kind....

I really hope my visit, my plans don't get ruined.

I really hope we can all learn to get along and love each other without manipulation and lies.

I really hope.......

I'll let you know.