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How I Cope with Complainers in a Christian Way
Living with someone who is always whining all the time is like an annoying faucet that won’t stop dripping. You try to tighten up the tap to no avail. You try to block the water from making a loud noise by putting a bucket under it or wrapping towels around it. You go to your bedroom in frustration and put a pillow over your head. It doesn’t matter what you do. There it is — drip, drip, drip. Argh!
I have lived with people who whine and complain all the time. It ain’t fun. All I would do was enter a room, and the complainer would spew a barrage of negative complaints at me. I left a mess in the kitchen. The tap is not fixed, and we don’t have the money right now to call a plumber. Then the faucet gets fixed, and the whiner starts to complain about something else.
Then I go to some Christian gatherings, and certain people will be whining and nitpicking about everything from the air conditioning being too cold in the sanctuary to the length of the church service.
Complainers definitely have a negative effect on me. If I was in a positive mood when I entered a room, their complaining hits me in the face — kinda like food poisoning hit my stomach. It churns away and grumbles. If the complaint is about something I did, I feel yucky. I am a bad person. I am a stupid idiot.
