Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great week! This blog post is going to be on something we ALL struggle with....forgiveness! About two weeks ago I had the opportunity to go to winter jam in Des moine! If you don't know what that is its where ten artists come and sing and help spread the gospel through music, videos and speakers and great messages! One of the artists that were there was Matthew west and one of the songs He sang was about forgiveness and He met this girl named Renee and her daughter was killed by a drunk driver! This man got sentenced to 22 years in prison for what he did! And to make a long story short Eric who was the drunk driver got his sentenced cut in half because Renee the mother wanted Eric to help spread messages about drunk driving and the cool thing about this is she forgave him! The reason I am telling you this is because forgiveness is not an easy thing to do! That's one of my struggles I have! So maybe you have someone in your life you think you can't forgive? Maybe you feel you can't forgive someone who has hurt you in the past? God helps us to forgive one another. Well I don't know if many of you have seen the movie October baby but here's a little summary this girl named Hannah was a survivor of a failed abortion! She didn't know anything about being adopted or even being a failed attempt of abortion! And finally her dad told her but when she found out she went on a trip ended up in jail and then found her real mom! But her mom still didn't want to have anything to do with her. Hannah wanted so badly to figure out who she was! And forgiveness played a HUGE role in this movie because Hannah felt hatred towards herself and her parents throughout the course and at the end of the movie she finds that she needs to forgive her real mother for trying to abort her! So she went to her work and left her a note saying "I forgive you" and from then on I saw freedom in her eyes! It was just a cool transformation throughout the course of the movie. She even forgives her father and mother who didnt tell her any of this!
So I hope this blog post opens your eyes and heart! I know it's opening my eyes! But here's a saying I heard "Hate the crime,not the criminal!"
If any one is interested in hearing that song that was sung by Matthew west I will post it!
Here it is
"Forgiveness"
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VquoupNiypI
I hope this blog blesses you because what I shared really taught me a lot about forgiveness! It's not easy to forgive someone that hurt you but forgiveness really is a cool transformation of the heart and mind! It will free you from the bondage of hate and guilt and shame!
Be blessed through out this weekend!
Mighty Mariah
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