A's Happiness Blogs

  Forgiveness is a topic that is a hard one to talk about. It is hard, because when you talk to others about forgiveness, they do not want to hear about it or they dismiss it.  So recently, I was in a situation where I had a falling out with someone close to me.  Now, I could see where the person was wrong in the situation and I complained, yes I did complain, about what had happened and the things this person was saying.  But as I sat down to write this blog a few weeks ago, God had to show me somethings. He took me to Matthew 18:21-35 In this scripture, Paul asked Jesus a simple question.  “Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” (Matthew 18: 21 & 22)  Jesus goes on and speaks a parable.  (Now growing up I was taught that a parable was simply an earthy story with a heavenly. m...

           This past week has been difficult. I have seen too many tears than I like to count come from people that I love and I felt hopeless. I felt like I needed to protect them from the pain that they was feeling. I tried my best to keep a brave face but found myself broken. Its hard to try to help people when you feel down and out your self. I did not know how to handle it. I found my self angry. It is hard to do anything when you get to that point. I wanted to hurt the individuals hurting my loves ones and no matter what people was telling me, I wanted to lash out. I wanted to be as ugly and as nasty as they was being. I did not care if I stepped out of who I was just for a brief period in time, because I wanted them to feel the hurt and the pain that they was dishing out to people around me. In my mind, that would have made me feel better, but in reality it would not. I would have probably felt worse about the situation. But we have a God t...