FORGIVENESS IN THE MIRROR

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter… ©

We can learn important thing from our children.

When daughter Katie was about 3 years old, I passed her the butter at the supper table. I pushed it a little too hard. Her little thumb went into the end of the butter stick. “I’m sorry,” I said. “That’s okay,” she replied. “I forgive you. I forgive you for all the mean and awful things you’ve ever done to me.”

I had no idea that I had done mean and awful things to her, but I was grateful for the forgiveness.

And I learned from it. Now I look into the mirror and say, “I forgive you for all the mean and awful things you’ve ever done to me.”

John Robert McFarland

jmcfarland1721@charter.net

The “place of winter” mentioned in the title line is Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where people are Yoopers [UPers] and life is defined by winter even in the summer! [This phrase is explained in the post for March 20, 2014.]

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