This week we are talking about the power of forgives as a characteristic of love. It is easy to love some one who loves us, isn’t it? It is simple to do that! What is harder is to still be nice and loving to those who don’t treat you well. We can return good for bad, and demonstrate forgiveness as a loving person. When someone mistreats you, the easiest thing to do is to try to retaliate, and to treat them badly too. What love does is the opposite. What love does is determine to choose the right thing to do, even when everyone else is doing wrong, and even when it is hard. We can begin practicing forgiveness in little ways, and offer apologies even when nothing deliberately was done. Can you easily say these words?
I am sorry
I wasn’t thinking
Please forgive my behavior, my actions, my words
Will you forgive me?
Those words can make every relationship better. When others are unkind to you, or mistreat you, because of the love of God in your heart, you can say
I forgive you
I release you
I will choose to love you.
That’s authentic love, and true forgiveness.
You are capable of being the loving and forgiving person God has called you to be!
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