Years ago when I was going through my 1st divorce, I remember my counselor telling me that repercussions from it would show up later in me & my children. Well, guess what ....they are here! I see a family that was so close in the early years become distant and unforgiving enough to the point of not speaking to one another. How do you undo all that? It can only be done with a lot of prayer & believing that God can change hearts. I raised my children well and they know better, but life has dealt them some hard stuff that
makes them bitter and unyielding. I can hope that some day soon they will realize that family is as important now as it was then and these are the people we cling to when things happen. Unforgiveness can fester inside a person so long that it becomes like a cancer that eats away at you inner being - BUT God is an ultimate
Healer and He is so much a God of second chances. We have to swallow our pride and hurt and let God renew & restore so that those ties are not broken anymore. I copied this piece from a book - think from
"The Shack" - its says: The Lord is so much better at this business of forgiveness than we mere mortals could ever hope to be, we're the ones who should be modeling His method, no the other way around. The Lord forgives s unconditionally. He doesn't need to sit & think it over, withholding His compassion, His mercy, and His grace. He doesn't cling to His grudges like we do, reliving them daily reminding himself how He was hurt or cheated or disappointed by someone as frail & flawed as we are. He forgives & wipes the slate clean.
