When Letting Go Is Actually Holding On

  This post is being submitted way past its due date. I’m not sure why, I have no excuse. What I do have is a sort of professionalism when it comes to forgiveness. Professional not in the way that I have perfected forgiveness, my path to it is not always a pretty one, but in…

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The Day Grace Showed Up

  It was supposed to be a celebration. I had just walked with a friend through a hard journey toward a giant goal. We had made it to the finish line! And here we were. I showed up at the gathering eager to celebrate. I carried a giant gift no one offered to take at…

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Forgiveness in the Dark

Nearly ten years ago my friend, Beth, came to Pennsylvania for a visit. We had just moved to the state four months earlier and I was anxious to show her what I’d found so far. No trip to this part of the state would be complete without a touring of Amish Country. So Beth and…

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The Observer and Forgiveness

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”  Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.”  ~ Matthew 18:21-22 ESV Last month was not an easy one for so many reasons…

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