Why it Hurts When Somebody Forgets Your Name. A Christian Perspective.

Yesterday I fired off an e-mail to a friend, only in the e-mail I referred to him by another name. I'd been e-mailing a few guys at the same time and slipped up. My friend e-mailed me back, joking with me, and in a subsequent e-mail, he called me Dan. And even though I'd been the one to first make the mistake, and even though my friend knows and loves me, seeing my name misspelled still stung a little bit. My first thought was that it stung because I was arrogant, after all, I did deserve...