Forgiveness Part 1
 If you are like me you might think that you don't have a problem forgiving others or that you don't need to ask for forgiveness. Some of us may be struggling with carrying loads of past experiences around with us and think it may be easier to just stuff it under everything else, or consume ourselves with life so we don't have time to think about it.

When I type, I type very fast, afraid that if I take my time and make sure everything is correct, what I want to get out will slip out of my mind, so I type as fast as possible which results in a page full of ugly, red squiggly lines. I want to go back and fix them immediately but as I mentioned before I am afraid that I will miss out on something else if I go back and fix the problem, so I just keep plugging forward. However, I just can't seem to really understand my writing until all of the mistakes have been corrected. I have this unfinished felling over me until I go back and fix every last mistake. It is not until every mistake has been corrected do I feel like the true meaning of my writing can shine through. This method of correcting also  many time leads me to better writing, it forces me to reread the material several times.

I think forgiveness is a lot like this, just go with me here. We know those past mistakes are there, we know we should go back to fix them, we know that nothing will really be right until we address those ugly red squiggly lines. Yeah, our reader may be able to make out the main idea of our writing but they will not truly enjoy the piece unless all those mistakes have been corrected. When we go back and correct our mistakes we are forced to "reread" our lives, relationships and experiences and through this correcting God reveals so much more to us and helps us to restore those relationships to a new high. So as we go forth today I challenge us to ask God to reveal those ugly red squiggly lines to us and then to give us the strength to go and fix them.