Be kind to people who are unkind to me

One of my coworkers got himself strung out on dope and stopped working. I asked him for my car and tools back in a text, he called a couple of hours later declaring he had wrecked the car and told me where I could find it. I looked and couldn’t find it anywhere. I should have had a lot of anxiety and anger, but I felt only sympathy for him and hopefulness for me. I didn’t get a chance to be kind, but I forgave him right away and haven’t had any hard feelings. I know I’ve changed, but a friend suggested it wasn’t me that changed, only the circumstances, that it’s easier to forgive a friend or a person rather than a nameless enemy. I premeditated forgiveness and kindness and was ready for what was done for me, and that’s the difference. And that part of my business is better than ever.

I thought of this goal while reading the Bible. Anyone can return kindness to kind people, christians are supposed to pray for their enemies and return kindness to unkindness. Two days later I found someone was burning through my pay per click dollars on google. It cost me $400 and made my site less visible for a week costing me about $1500 in business. The clicks seemed centered around Maaco, and I had recently upped my bids on Maaco google traffic, effectively taking away their clicks, but I doubt taking away their business, they do complete paints and I do spot jobs.
I spent four hours fuming over the black hat tactics, fantasizing about my revenge, then the still small voice reminded me of my desire to be kind to unkindness and I was instantly convicted. I totally blew my chance to be a christian this time. Lucky there is repentance and forgiveness.
So I protected my advertising from future attacks like this, placed a couple of positive consumer reviews online for them, especially kind because I was objective and sincere where most people review Maaco poorly, and altered my advertising so people wouldn’t confuse us as competitors so much, so I only take away their clicks if the person really wanted me instead of them.
An amazing experience, I hope next time my reaction is forgiveness instead of anger.