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Jesus said: "And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses." 
Mark 11:25

Welcome to Forgiveness Friday
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My prayer partner and I often wrestle with questions about the nature of forgiveness, especially when anguish over the unforgiveness that remains in our heart - even after we have resolved to forgive again and again - surfaces and demands attention. Recently I felt the need in my life for a sustained focus on forgiveness, and 'Forgiveness Friday' is the result. The intention is to share an email each week with friends so that we can encourage each other in our quest to live out Jesus' command. The email content is linked as a pdf in the posts below in case it is of interest to others.

Forgiveness Friday #2
17 September 2021

Dear friends, yes, I faithfully fulfilled the promise I made last week - to bless five people I had had negative thoughts about during that day. Three things happened.

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Forgiveness Friday #1
10 September 2021

What is the one thing we do that so endangers our relationship with God and that is so dangerous to our health and wellbeing (not to mention dangerous to our sanity and to anything living that comes within our radius), that it is a prominent theme in the bible and even Jesus offers us a remedy for it – and yet it is not a sin?
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The answer is: We forget. We forget what God has done in our lives, in the lives of our family and friends, and in the lives of the generations before us. We forget how creative God is, how kind and reliable He is, how tough He is. We forget God. We forget who we are in God. We forget. . .

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