Forgiveness Part Deux

I'm asking God for forgiveness today. Likewise, I'm asking others for forgiveness and giving forgiveness to others. Wow, that's a lot of forgiving. But it's heavily needed. I'm officially 24 in a week and I don't want baggage crossing over with me. New birthday creates new meaning and new ideas and new lives. Things happen that are unfortunate. They are tragic and messy, but think about if we NEVER forgave people and we carried it with us for all time? Kept a little pocket notebook next to our bed so we could re-read the bad things done to us?

Okay side note: If you wanna feel calmed, go to Pandora.com and make a playlist based on Mumford and Sons. Holy goodness it's wonderful. Sure some of the songs are like, really? You thought THIS was a good song to add to this epic list of music? Hmm.... no thanks Daughtry, nobody wants you here. Okay, so maybe not HIM, but other people that usually aren't your fancy. And if you like Daughtry, you can go ahead and stop reading my blog. I can almost guarantee you that I will bash him again, and others like him. And if you actually take my advice and do this, you should tell me how it goes. I'm quite curious to see if you, my reader, has the same taste in music. Don't get me wrong, I love other music, but for calming purposes, and some soothing voices, this is your channel.

Back to forgiveness. Here we go. So could you hold on to the bad things like that in your little notebook? What would it say? Tiffany told everyone on the playground that I liked Dan. It was embarrassing. I was 5. Of course I still remember it. My mind is a steal trap (except sometimes it's not. whoopsies. lol) But when I see this Tiffany girl I would never think of walking up to her and yelling at her for doing that to me. I was five! And heck, Dan is and was cute! Or hmmm... another example you guys are looking for? When I was 4 Sam in the trailer park we lived in (don't ask) ALWAYS led us around in follow the leader and Holly and I never got to. Maybe that's a bad example, because I don't think I'd be friends with her because of that. lol. But you get my point. If God forgives me probably before I even do the bad thing because He knows everything, then I can handle doing some of my own forgiveness. This is taken off BibleGateway.com

1. Genesis 50:17
   'This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.' Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father." When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
   Genesis 50:16-18 (in Context) Genesis 50 (Whole Chapter)

Sure, it's asking Joseph to forgive, but I think it can directly relate to me.

And you know... I probably shouldn't feel so bad that I can't seem to forgive as much as I want to. God made us these awesome and unique creatures that love, and hate, and have so much emotion we don't even know what to do with it. Things are bound to happen! And since we are born sinners, we are going to sin. We can't be perfect like our wonderful Father, so we sin and we feel bad and we repent and we do the cycle day in and day out. So... I guess I'm starting at step 1 today. I'm okay with that. The beginning is always nice. It's refreshing. Let's hope this step 1 lasts at least until my birthday! Or that we can go through the cycle again before then. Haha. What a silly world we live in. Have a wonderful day today friends and kids alike!

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