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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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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 #6
15 October 2021

Forgiveness entails a shift in perspective from self to other. 

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Forgiveness Friday #5
8 October 2021

Unforgiven hurt, condemnation and resentment take up spiritual space and sap our spiritual life. 

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Forgiveness Friday #4
1 October 2021

Sometimes our decision to forgive can dissipate and disappear, effectively chaining us to a perpetual treadmill of hurt and blame. To 'set' the decision to forgive, we need to follow through with an action. Blessings make great setting agents! 

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Forgiveness Friday #3
24 September 2021

Through acts of forgiveness we bless ourselves, and our children, and our children's children. It's a great incentive to continually renew the decision to forgive. 

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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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