Most of us fall and collapse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of God’s purpose and die of self-pity. No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne. Oswald Chambers Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look …
Still more on forgiveness (forgiving God)
Heaven renders unanswerable "why" questions irrelevant and inspires us to live with them in hope. Gregory A. Boyd Lord, if this is the way you treat your friends, no wonder you don’t have many! Mother Teresa Back at the beginning of the bleakness, over Chinese food my friend Joe asked me if my faith in God …
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Unhooking from the bumper (On forgiveness) part three
I was feeling pretty good about all this letting go stuff when I ran into a snag, one of the many snags in the Bible on which I’ve gotten hung up. I got to thinking about Jesus’ prayer from the cross, “Father, forgive them…” He didn’t look down at his wild-eyed crucifiers and say “I …
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Unhooking from the bumper (On forgiveness) part two
[Here's a draft of the second of three parts on forgiving... All one chapter in the forthcoming memoir I'm planning to publish soonish...] Forgiving small things is easy, like when the neighbor didn’t pick up after their dog and I stepped in it, or like that time the barber used the wrong number clipper on …
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Unhooking from the bumper (On forgiving) part one
(Another small random piece of the Memoir...) We cannot go back and undo the damage of yesterday, but we can undo the damage it is causing today. We do that with the act of forgiveness. Steve Arterburn We must develop the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid …
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