I learned this from my father, who modeled it every day. When he was the president of Ohio Christian University in the 1960s, I thought the university’s board didn’t treat him with the respect and consideration he had earned and deserved. But he never retaliated or said anything negative about them. I remember a time when someone interviewed Dad and asked his opinion about a man who had been particularly nasty to him. When Dad said only nice things about the man, the interviewer proceeded to recount all the terrible things the man had said about Dad. My dad’s reply? “You didn’t ask me what he
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