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When It’s Painful to Forgive Those Who Hurt You

Tears streamed down my face. If I have to hear another sermon on unforgiveness, I’ll scream, I thought. I had been deeply wounded by people who were professing Christians. But the preacher was pronouncing me the guilty one—guilty of unforgiveness. It seemed forgiveness meant saying, “Oh, well, that’s okay. It doesn’t matter. I forgive you.” […]

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Seen and Known, Safe and Secure

Don’t you sometimes wish you could be a child again? Life was much easier when someone else was watching over you, keeping you safe. You were seen and secure. When I was eight years old, my grandparents built a house next door to ours. While the house was under construction, my siblings and I would […]