Day After Guilt

I feel guilty for my last post where I was mother-in-law bashing. I do! This is what I want to get over... these terrible feelings towards people....

I know not everyone is fair or kind or honorable. What I REALLY hate about the situation with my mother-in-law (and other people in my life that I also dislike for one reason or the other) is that I start to feel like I should be above pettiness. I wish that instead of getting angry or aggravated, that I could just rise above the situation.

Where I am lost is: how do I get there? How do I not allow other peoples' behavior to make me so angry or aggravated? I don't WANT to sit and daydream about choking my M-I-L (did I mention she use to lock her children in the dark basement????) See? I just can't let her bad behavior go! I am mad at not only how she treats me, but how she treats her own children.

But what I KNOW to be true is that you cannot change someone else's behavior or viewpoint, you can only change your own. So whatever I do I am going to find peace in my heart, even for M-I-L....