Comments on: Forgiveness – The Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Do http://mikkiblogs.com/forgiveness/ Spiritual encouragement - relationship with God Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:34:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Susi http://mikkiblogs.com/forgiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-772 Susi Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:59:31 +0000 http://mikkiblogs.com/?p=884#comment-772 What I've found about graduate classes is that when I take them I realize I still have so much to learn! I always go into them thinking I will be reviewing material, and then I come to find out there is a lot I either missed or forgot. Forgiveness is one of those things we really don't want a refresher course in. But God is gracious. He reminds us of the pain enough without us having to relive everything. We feel the sting without losing more than we already have--and we see another facet of our untamed hearts. Thank you for sharing your experiences and giving God the opportunity to bring us more in touch with places of need in each of us! Love you! What I’ve found about graduate classes is that when I take them I realize I still have so much to learn! I always go into them thinking I will be reviewing material, and then I come to find out there is a lot I either missed or forgot. Forgiveness is one of those things we really don’t want a refresher course in. But God is gracious. He reminds us of the pain enough without us having to relive everything. We feel the sting without losing more than we already have–and we see another facet of our untamed hearts. Thank you for sharing your experiences and giving God the opportunity to bring us more in touch with places of need in each of us! Love you!

]]> By: Cathleen http://mikkiblogs.com/forgiveness/comment-page-1/#comment-771 Cathleen Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:19:31 +0000 http://mikkiblogs.com/?p=884#comment-771 Well said Mikki! To me the key phrase in what you said is "we must all admit that we are unable in our humanness to deal the death blow to offense in one broad stroke." Indeed, we are HUMAN, not divine, and while Jesus forgives intantaneously upon request, I think we are most often unable to be like Him in this serious aspect of the Christian life. One time in 2003, I was in Sunday school class, and the teacher led us in prayer to forgive someone in our lives that had hurt us, leaving the name of the person we wanted to forgive silent for us to say to ourselves. Well, I thought I had already forgiven everyone who had hurt me, but when the teacher paused for us to say a name silently to the Lord, a name popped into my head and consequently into my prayer. Guess what? Within two weeks, I unexpectedly heard from the offspring of the person I forgave (for the 2nd or 3rd time - grin - in that Sunday school class.) She had been looking for me for several years but finally found me on the web two weeks after that forgiveness prayer! I had been very close to her but had lost contact with her for over 15 years, and we now have an email relationship that never would have been possible without the Lord working His marvelous ways. Hey! Have you read The Power of Forgiveness: Celebration of Simplicity by Joyce Meyer? If so, what do you think about the content of the book? Love ya! Well said Mikki! To me the key phrase in what you said is “we must all admit that we are unable in our humanness to deal the death blow to offense in one broad stroke.” Indeed, we are HUMAN, not divine, and while Jesus forgives intantaneously upon request, I think we are most often unable to be like Him in this serious aspect of the Christian life.

One time in 2003, I was in Sunday school class, and the teacher led us in prayer to forgive someone in our lives that had hurt us, leaving the name of the person we wanted to forgive silent for us to say to ourselves. Well, I thought I had already forgiven everyone who had hurt me, but when the teacher paused for us to say a name silently to the Lord, a name popped into my head and consequently into my prayer.

Guess what? Within two weeks, I unexpectedly heard from the offspring of the person I forgave (for the 2nd or 3rd time – grin – in that Sunday school class.) She had been looking for me for several years but finally found me on the web two weeks after that forgiveness prayer! I had been very close to her but had lost contact with her for over 15 years, and we now have an email relationship that never would have been possible without the Lord working His marvelous ways.

Hey! Have you read The Power of Forgiveness: Celebration of Simplicity by Joyce Meyer? If so, what do you think about the content of the book?
Love ya!

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