Protection and Forgiveness
9 more days to December 31, 2008, or 357, 2008 blog entries. Within each is my life's story, some deeper than words can say. Thank you for both the encouragement and questions, all have kept my heart in check, to not let anything go to my head.
I started these entries at the time my family began the journey of coming back together after Ken and I were separated for 4 months. On Christmas day Ken, Josh, Jesse and I knelt to pray along a string facing each other, representing a line that Jesus drew in the sand when the woman was caught in adultery and about to be stoned to death. Our separation wasn't about adultery but there was accusing and throwing stones at each other. It was a new beginning for us just as Jesus protected the woman in sin, He also protects us and says 'to forgive each other'.
The journey to forgive daily continues and will as long as we live, within our own families and with friends. Perceptions (because if we allow our hearts to see, each person operates sometimes blindly out of his or her own deep hurts as we do) of being wronged, great or small, this is where forgiveness begins and ends everyday. Before the sun goes down we face the ones who hurt us along that line of His loving protection that He draws before us and we ask 'who are we that we should hold anything against anyone?"
Especially in this season, when family and friends come closer together, we can search our hearts in our reacting and responding to each other, whether silent or spoken. Then we can remember the line in the sand, which our hand did not draw. It was drawn by the One Who saved us, He is pure Love and came to forgive all the sins of the world.
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