Many of us have had people in our lives that have wronged us. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.” (Luke 6:37). Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. In the book of Luke, Jesus tells us: “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. It was God who made it clear to my father that he was forgiven and it was God that gave me the strength to forgive! It’s clear to me now that God that used me and my stepbrothers to lead our father back to Christ. Without God, this would never have been possible. Over a course of time, talks, visits and prayer on both our parts, things are better between us. It is a process that has taken years - trust had to be established and I had to allow him back in. However, this story has a happy ending! God truly worked a miracle in my life and today, I am reconciled to my father.
I also remember thinking very clearly that I had done something wrong to make him leave. Not surprisingly, I do not remember anything bad about my time with him. I still remember going to amusement parks with him, getting my hair cut, or riding in his GTO. I loved my dad greatly, as many young boys do, and looked up to him. I cannot even begin to explain the impact that not having him there had on my life. We wouldn’t speak again until I was seventeen years old. I remember him visiting a couple of times, but then those visits became less and less frequent, and then eventually stopped altogether. I was seven when something went wrong in my parent’s marriage.
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