Do you ever stop to think about what the forgiveness God offers really means? We all like to ask for it and receive it. We talk it up in church as a really good thing. I hear most people talk about it as sort of just a nice thing God offers. The longer I live and the more mornings I wake up needing forgiveness, the more shocking I find His forgiveness. Absolutely shocking. Who in their right mind would forgive me, or anyone, that many times? Really. Shocking.
Then there's the next part--forgive as I've been forgiven. I'm supposed to forgive this way? Bbbbbbuuuut......that person REALLY hurt me. Yup. Forgiveness means releasing someone, who has caused me a real hurt, from what they owe me. That's shocking. That's freedom. That's impossible without the author of true forgiveness.
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A place I created to collect and share some of my journey as a child of God and a follower of Jesus Christ mostly because I don't get to share nearly enough of it on a daily basis with those I love.
There, peeping above the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for awhile. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up and out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing; there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. J.R.R. Tolkien
Me
- Patti G
- I am on the journey of life which right now involves raising 2 boys, being married to my highschool sweetheart (who is still a sweetheart), homeschooling, and teaching whoever will listen. Mostly I am learning what it means to be loved by Jesus and learning to love him back.
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