"If you forgave them, why don't you go see them more often?" One of the attendees at a workshop on forgiving our parents asked. I'd spoken of the abuse from my father, his continuing oppressive nature, and how I'd given up my hatred, but still didn't spend much time with them. At the time, about …
Category Archives: Forgiveness
Right or Healed?
Matthew 18's parable of the ungrateful servant ends with the words, "“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.” Jesus is speaking of being thrown into a torturer's den if having been forgiven, we do not forgive. Don't we like to think of Jesus …
Unforeclosable House
“As we were praying, I got an image of a house of forgiveness,” I said to the small group, sitting on comfortable chairs at the leader’s house. After discussing the nature of sin, we’d finished small group with a brief prayer time. As we had explored some of the ways we miss God’s mark, a …