Forgiveness and Love

When God forgives,
something decisive happens.
When we forgive, again,
something decisive happens.

In Healing Life’s Hurts,
Matthew and Dennis Linn
tell of an inner-healing workshop they observed.
The men and women present
were all once divorced and had remarried.

They had come to retreat
hoping for healing of
the anger and hostility they felt
toward their former spouses.

During the weekend session,
the remarried couples
were slowly and prayerfully
led into ways in which they could grow
from their past relationships and use
what they learned to build new patterns of love
and forgiveness in their current marriages.

After a year, the group reunited
to discuss what had happened
in the aftermath of the retreat.
The Linns reported: “Out of the seven
who forgive their former spouse
after the years of resentment,
five found their former spouses had suddenly
made an effort to forgive and build a bridge toward them.

One suddenly called
a week after the workshop,
another traveled two thousand miles
to see his family, and another wrote
his first letter in ten silent years.

Forgiveness frees us
to both give and receive love.
It is one of the most important things we must practice in marriage
Forgiveness is giving love when there is no reason to.

Living Above Board

He had risen to the top of his career

And occupied a position that gave him

Access to every president of the world

Only a few men in history would ever get to sit

Where he sat or boast of what he had

He was not only intelligent

He was also a man of style and was respected

Across the globe he had built a rich reputation

That made him a suitable successor to the incumbent

President of his nation

Doninque Gaston Andre Strauss-Kahn

Had risen to become one of the world’s most

Respected figures as the managing director of

International Monetary Fund as well as a likely

Candidate for the French presidential election

But all came to an abrupt end when he was alleged

To have sexually assaulted a hotel employee

He had to resign and was moved from first class

Compartment of a jet into the solitary confinement of a jet

Into the solitary confinement of a prison

Of course the charge was dropped after a long battle

But more charges was raised about keeping a prostitute ring

Even though he was highly respected and revered none could

Deny the battle he consistently lost – sex

Tiger Woods’ name defined golf for a long time

As well and he had risen to become the most respected

Sports personality of his era

He was number 1 for so many years and money rolled in

From all forms of endorsement

Loosing on the golf course was alien to him

But none could deny the sex battles he lost

Which eventually caught up with him and cost him

His marriage, career and earnings

We can go on and on to mention several names of leaders

Who never recover from their inability to handle their sexuality

In my studies over the years I have discovered that men and women

In history have been able to handle every other thing

Except their sexuality as a matter of fact

There is a theory that the more passionate a leader is

The higher his / her sex drive