today's post shall be about forgiveness because I can hardly fathom why my husband hasn't kicked me out for once again getting wasted and becoming a useless human being for a full 24hours. he didn't kick me out but even slept on the floor next to me and "oklahoma city" (that's what I was calling my towel...I have lots of work in okc recently so am assuming that stress was a part of this week's melt down).
and my sis-in-law! she nicely warned me on my second nell-mixed-pre-bar margarita yet still sat beside me on the sticky floor of the bar bathroom.
this must be what it is to be human. same mistakes over and over.
and God is the forgiver. over and over and over some more.
luke 7:36
oh and I put five dollars in my daughter's tzedakah box today because I was thankful for my family's forgiveness. that was surprisingly hard :) ha. but I think letting go of my dollars will be good for my attachments to worldly things.
Today is a new day, a time to reflect and learn.
ReplyDeleteYour Pastor Jeske reminds us of profound teachings in II Peter 1:5-9: "....add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance (self-control), and to temperance patience (perseverance), and to patience godliness (YOU are part of God's PLAN), and to godliness brotherly kindness (treat others with patience, understanding and trust), and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins."
God has made life one large lesson - what we learn and take to heart from each page of each chapter is what is important.
In a few days, hugs and kisses -----