FORGIVENESS IS GOOD FOR THE BOTH OF YOU

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I think I’m safe in saying that at some point just about everyone has had an up close and personal encounter with a grudge.  Unfortunately some seem to collect and hold on to hurts as if their life depended on it. 

So let’s stop and look at these sour grapes everyone has picked off the complaining vine and more than once.  Look at the harvest of hurts we all have stored away and consider the results when we have not been able to get them out of our system.

The couple had been married for 15 years and lately their disagreements were beginning to multiply.  But they wanted to find in their marriage what once they had had, so they both agreed to work at it.  And as a way of doing this they made a rule that at the end of each day they would write down something that was irritating them, driving them up the wall, however you want to put it, and drop the piece of paper into a fault box.

 

The wife was diligent in her efforts.  The first day she dropped in a note that read, “Left the top off the jar of jelly.”  The next day her note complained, “Left dirty socks on the floor - again.”  On the third day she wrote down two more complaints.  She continued in this vein for the next four days.

At the end of the week, they emptied their boxes and examined the contents.

The husband looked troubled as he read her notes, but nodded his head in agreement that these were indeed faults he needed to work on.

When the wife read his notes she found that he hadn’t played by the rules.  On each of the seven sheets of paper were just three words, “I love you.” 

As you might expect, this only made her madder.  And so she turned and shouted at her husband.  “You’re not playing by the rules. 

Don’t you understand that when you are upset you are supposed to say mean and spiteful things? 

 And say them more than once as a way of proving you are right.  

And then you’re supposed to stay mad long enough to make sure the other person knows he’s wrong.  If you don’t play by the rules, husband dear, how are we ever going to get along better?”

Does this sort of logic leave you shaking your head? 

Maybe leave you thinking perhaps you’ve wandered into the story of Alice in Wonderland?  Yet, in spite of its lack of logic that is really how many people act. 

They would love to have more peace and harmony in their relationships, yet continue to follow the wrong paths to achieve that goal. 

They have heard and maybe even read the Sermon on the Mount but fail to apply Christ’s message about forgiveness to themselves. 

TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW…

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How spiritual was Abraham Lincoln?  Well, look at how often he worked God into both his conversations and speeches.  He was not the only President to mention prayers to the Almighty on a regular basis, but what is important is how comfortable he seemed in doing it.  A single reminder of an isolated spiritual moment would make it impossible to build a case for spirituality.  With Lincoln this is never a problem, for this giant of a man had a giant on-going sense of soul equal to his physical presence.

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          “I invite the people of the United States… to invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit…”³  It is well to remember that the man behind this national proclamation also wrote that he had a solemn oath registered in heaven to finish his work.  But why not?  This, after all, was a man who at Gettysburg, with Generals and other men of good    

counsel all around, still fell to his knees in prayer, and thereby, found “sweet comfort” ⁴  creeping into his soul.

A secular humanist will be less than happy with these observations because it reminds us that Abraham Lincoln was a man of moral absolutes.  That he knew the difference between right and wrong and agonized over them.  Anyone who has a love affair with anarchy has to be unhappy with a president who did not believe that if it feels good then it must be okay.