Learning to forgive enhances our emotional health.
Have you ever wondered why forgiveness is so hard to offer? Releasing situations and offering forgiveness often mimics a puppy attempting to wriggle its way out of clutched hands. We hold tight, refusing to allow it to go. We grasp that hurt and offense, and we cling to blame like static cling causes a dress…
Have you ever found forgiveness impossible to offer? I thought I did a few years back. And boy, what a wrestling match! When unforgiveness cloaks us, it’ll turn a bright, sunny face into a gray hue of anger and sorrow. Bitterness and resentment wash us with their ugly darkness. The bad scene grows darker by…
What would Jesus do? Wounded when wronged – it happens, doesn’t it? And goodness, forget forgiveness in those tough situations. After all, we’ve been wronged: wounded by their words, hurt by their intentions, maimed by their force. They simply don’t deserve our forgiveness. Right? But what would Jesus do? (Remember that saying from years past…
Sometimes I wish I could stick my head in the sand, cover my ears and tout la la la la la when certain tough or emotional situations arise. Take forgiveness, for example. That’s a tough one to offer when we’ve been wronged but stand oh-so-right, when another has been a “jerk” and we’ve been oh-so-nice,…
It’s a common thread. Do you perceive it? Forgiveness occurs when we draw near to our Father. It’s an act of maturity. It’s an act of surrender, of selflessness. It’s an act of love…that sets us free. Like the woman who poured perfume on Jesus, my love cup overflows onto others…
UPDATE: Linking, having coffee, and enjoying Jesus today, Jan.21, 2015, with Jennifer Dukes Lee at #TellHisStory and Holley Gerth. Inside the turmoil began to brew. I knew I should forgive and move past the situation. But I had been hurt. The swirl of painful words splattered my…
Continued from part 1, located HERE. Part 2 A sense of peace had made its way into her heart the night she kissed her children and turned off the hall light. For years she kept a light on, but this night she felt safe. No one was going to harm her, no…
Guest post by Jamie Williams Jesus, do you love me? The bible tells me so, when I go to sleep tonight please don’t let me go. Jesus do you love me? Am I a good little girl? Late into the night he creeps and opens up my door he hurts me in…