AM: When I was journaling, I wrote down some of the people that I’m caught in right now. I forgive the lady who blasted me, but I know she’s not safe.

Betty: I call that you’re a little gun shy. In other words, in the event the hooks between the two of you are not completely gone, you’re liable to get hurt. So, that protective part of us will act gun shy. 

AM: Is that okay? 

Betty: Well, it just says to me that there’s still more need for healing. When you’re more completely healed, you’ll even lose the gun shyness. But yes, while there’s still some hooks there, you possibly could get hooked again. But this time, it’ll be different. Because you’ll have wisdom. You’ll have wisdom to recognize, “Oh, Lord.” Like in a sense I do now when I find myself hooked by somebody, I simply say, “Oh no.” Because it tells me I have more work to do. 

AM: She’s got a strong personality. She’s very perfectionistic. 

Betty: Okay, and your Perfectionist is exactly that way. It’s hard for me to like your Perfectionist, because she is really harsh. And I see the way she treats you. She’s not nice at all. You can really beat up on yourself. Some people might even hurt themselves, because they get so angry. They get so angry at the part of them that will not do that which they want it to do. And it’s exactly what St. Paul was talking about. But back in those days, they didn’t know psychology. But it’s interesting when you have studied psychology, and you read the Bible, you can see where they’re coming up against these parts in themselves. But psychology hadn’t developed, so they don’t have the words to speak of what they’re experiencing. 

AM: So, in order to get more healed there, the more I work on my Perfectionist, the better the relationship. 

Betty: Yeah, and the way you work on it is to stay in truth, or to pray, and ask the Lord for his help to live in truth.  Instead of being mad at yourself, you and I need to develop the ability to glorify and thank the Lord for his help in making us face this or that thing that normally speaking we would be having a fit about.

Ask the Lord for his help to live in truth and thank him for His help in making you face something that would normally be difficult for us.