Forgiveness

      I just watched "The Grace Card" the movie was little more than I expected until the end. This blog is about pain & forgiveness. And the poison of unforgiveness.

       My ex-wife did caused so much pain that I had to separate. She was convicted of child abuse. After conviction, little changed.  I won't go into details.
She also did things to me that was written in the original book The Art of War.
In the end she took my babies away from me and cut me off from seeing them until I can afford to fight her on it.
All my family feels she is a horrible woman.

      If Adonia told me to return to her I surely would do it. Not because of desire ,or not letting go. But rather forgiveness and biblical charity. Though I doubt this will happen.


     I can not stress enough how important it is to forgive those people who have hurt you the deepest. Find an old King James bible. Find the word charity,read the verses try and figure out what exactly the word means. American charity is NOT biblical charity.

Whats In A Name?

     Some years ago I was a telemarketer. I would have s screen pop up on my screen with a name on it. Then my head set would start ringing.  Some of the names that came across on my screen were impossible for my American mind to figure out. One that really stumped me was Ngo. Spanish names were also hard at times. Anything with a letter combination that did not work for American English to figure out made things difficult. To make matters worse when you pronounce a name wrong people get offended. I mean really mad. It's a respect issue. People feel disrespected when you say their name wrong. This started an idea in my thinking about should we be careful to pronounce names? How about should we be careful to know the names of those we talk to. My idea here is this. If it is disrespect to call a person by the wrong name then it is more disrespectful to call the God we serve by improper names. Yes He is big enough to handle it. But should we be more reverent than that for the god we call Adonia (the Lord) I am daring to say maybe it's better to error on the side of reverence than disrespect.