Tag: Forgiveness
Throw Away the Receipts
Receipts are the physical or electronic documents that serve as proof of a financial transaction. Go to a restaurant and several of them will ask you to sign the merchant copy of a receipt, while you get to keep a customer copy. If there is a CVS near where you live, after making your… View Article
When Forgiveness Doesn’t Make Sense
This is a tough article for me to write. I understand forgiveness, and I appreciate it when I need it personally. However, it usually only sounds easy until you have to do it. When I was a teenager, school shootings were not something we were afraid of. We were not afraid because the world around us… View Article
The First Stone
A few weeks ago I was reading through the book of John when I came across the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery. I had read this passage before but that day, a phrase stood out to me a little differently than it had in times past. Jesus asked the woman… View Article
The Forgiveness Gift
In my reading not long ago, the Lord opened my eyes to a simple, yet powerful concept. That morning, I opened my heart a little wider as I re-opened a gift that was purchased long ago. I’m not sure why it never stood out to me, but depending on the tense where forgiveness is used,… View Article
When the Flowers Mold
Ah, that moment. You know the one. When you lean down to take a big whiff of those memory-laden roses, and you’re slapped in the face with a gruesome and unfriendly scent. You’re immediately tossed into one of two responses. One response is to rush to the cabinet and grab the plastic wrap. These flowers… View Article