FORGIVE

Forgiveness isn't a feeling. It is a choice!

So release those who have caused you pain, discard those old tapes that play those awful scenes of injustice over and over and allow the God of the impossible to help you wipe the debt clean.

That is what He did for you. He paid a debt so costly that we could never begin to repay it...and we never deserved it either!

Forgiveness sets you free. It cuts the very root of bitterness out of your heart.

It allows healing to come...mostly to you. A refreshing of hope dispells the darkness of unbelief.

I believe that forgiveness opens supernatural doors for blessings to flow into our lives and also allow the beauty of God's love an unhindered light into the lives of others.

Parents in Pain

Behind the smile lies deeper pain

For sun has gone; replaced by rain

A child is gone, another too

All that's left behind of you.

We go onward still and face the day

And hide our tears and great dismay

Yet sighs are heard beneath each breath

The facade falls sway to certain death.

How did this come; who is to blame?

Why all the heartache, grief and shame?

I'm angry now and still I try

To forget such pain: I seek to hide.

Not just one loss, many have come

Not just a daughter or a son

But children and grandchildren too

I try to hide; but pain shines through

What is the point to all we've done

The hours of loving daughter and son

Of holding them when they too cried

When their worlds seem to have died.

But now forgotten parents love

Taken flight on wings of dove

And none remember but he and I

We share a glance a tear and cry

Life still goes on the day will come

When truth will stand; we'll be as one

Re-united! Oh what sweet re-frain!

No longer to be parents in pain.

Written by:

Rose E. Slater

4/18/09 11:50 PM

Sorrow at Sunset

There is nothing quite like sorrow in the evening.

Time seems to go so much slower and it is as if the night will never end.

The Bible commands "Don't let the sun go down on your wrath."

There is such torment during those dark hours of the night when our thoughts race from one thing to another; where we cry ourselves to sleep only to wake up right where we ended up the day before... with unforgiveness and unresolved issues... if we have allowed the sun to set this way.

I have experienced many times of sorrow at sunset. Not all of them were due to my unwillingness to resolve conflict, but many times there were situations that came that were beyond my control.

My father went to be with the Lord 15 years ago on May 26, 1994. It was a desperately dark time and things began to change so fast concerning my life that I could barely process any pain. It seemed that the sun had set and would never rise again. I really loved him, but I didn't realize how lost I felt without him.

Just 9 months later my husband's father went to be with the Lord and the sun set once more in our family.

There are many things which cause pain in our lives. We tend to think that dawn will never come. There is an old hymn that says,

"Beyond the Sunset, O' Blissful morning,

When with our Savior heaven is begun.

Earth's toiling ended, O' glorious dawning,

Beyond the sunset when day is done."

Jesus is coming soon! He has promised us an eternal home full of joy and gladness. A home without pain or sorrow, sickness, disease, dying, seperation, divorce or any other kind of death.

One day soon sorrow's sun will set for the last time.