1) I have learned that sometimes your patience needs to run out.
I am the type of person who gives people hundreds of chances, but there are people who will abuse this and continually take advantage of you. So, this summer I learned that sometimes patience hurts more that it helps. Especailly with minipulative people.

2) I do not always need to compromise myself for the sake of other people.
I put my comfort, my conveniene, and my desires last most of the time. How ever time and time again people took advantage of me, especially other christians with stronger personalities. Yes, I still need to compromise but so does everyone else, I need to let other people compromise for me ocasionlly.

3) Sometimes compassion hurts more than it helps, especailly when you provide it to people who abuse it.
When ever I see someone who has really messed up I automatically feel compassion. This compassion that I feel discourages me to discipline or to point out wrongs, especailly when someone has wronged me, I usually think I must have done something to deserve it. I learned that compassion is a phenomenal gift to have but as with all of my blessings people will take advantage of it and it is my job to make sure that it is not abused.

4) You don't need to reveal every liar, cheater and stealer; God knows who they are.
Sometimes I feel like I need to call people out on thier sin, but I have realized that it's not my job. One incident happened where a man came up to my team and was begging for money for food. My team ignored him because we didn't think he was ligitamete. In hindsight we think that we should have treated him like he really was a beggar in need of food, we should given him money, God knew the situation. If he was a real beggar in need of food, we denied him.

5) Keep no record of wrongs.
This one is simple. Don't keep track how many time people have hurt you. Start with a clean slate, but don't be niave. Just don't hold grudges.

6) Never let the sun go down on an unresolved issue.
Stay up all night to talk it out if you need to. Being right with people is more important than sleeping and having another day ruined becasue of yesterday's arguement.

7) Before speaking, think to yourself, "Is it kind?" "Is it true?" "Is it nesseccary?"
It is important to think about the things you are going to say and your motivation for saying them. This things are vital to consider if you want to keep relationships.

8) Love truly does never fail! Don't give up on people. You love them, remember? Always express grace and mercy.
Duh.

9) An environment of grace can change people's lives.
Most people have never experienced grace before. You can change lives simply by creating an environment of pure grace.

10) Do your best to love people as God loves them, NO MATTER WHAT!
Duh.