Lovingly Forgive
(Love) does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
As a young child, I loved the winter snows. But what I didn't appreciate were the blizzards, because they would come in with driving winds of 50 to 60 miles an hour and close the roads. We would be isolated on our farm. The only good thing about the blizzard was that I didn't have to go to school.
However, soon we would look out down the road and see the snowplow coming, cutting through the drifts, slicing through the snow, chopping it up and blowing it into a huge spewing stream in the ditch. And as the plow would pass, we were free to go to the store, and I could return to school.
Resentments are like snowdrifts and forgiveness like the snowplow. You see, in the eyes of many people, forgiveness is simply a matter of passive acquittal. But in the Godly context, forgiveness is a snowplow - opening the road, removing barriers, permitting communication to be restored.
There are a lot of resentments that can build up in our lives in the course of a day. And the only way to put joy on your face and in your heart is to find an overwhelming love that can remove resentments and fill you with FORGIVENESS.
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I am immune to resentments and grudges because I can lovingly forgive! If hurt and resentments are the snow, and forgiveness is the snowplow, what is in the "spewing stream" that needs to be blown from your life?
Written by Robert Schuller - using his text to inspire another as it inspired me.
(This is all non profit and for only personal use..God bless you!
Part of life's durability is in forgiveness, it extends our life length and improves our all over health to forgive, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain, maybe even a restored relationship with a cherished one which had gone stale because of holding onto a grudge or negative thoughts.
This is my experience, I hope you enjoy this short story and these words of mine to inspire someone.-Marilyn
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