Loving is forgiving

Well, this first part has nothing really to do with the title of todays blog so here it goes.

Last night I went to see a fellow Pi Zeta Phi sister perform at her release cd concert. It was truly amazing! I love her songs because you can take anyone of them and apply it to your life and it just makes you know that it all will be okay. It was a very fun evening! Then today my family came down to school to take me out to celebrate my birthday that is coming up and I received the best birthday surprise ever! They brought the little girl they babysit and she is my little buddy and I was just so excited to see her! It was a great surprise!

But as for they title, loving is forgiving. What does this mean to you?

I recently had two close friends tell me that they did not want to be friends anymore and this has been on my heart for the pass week and this morning in bible class we were studying from the book of 1 John and this lesson just really spoke to me. The lesson was about forgiving, no matter what has happened. The teacher said that if we love we have light and if we have light we have the truth. But if we hate we have darkness and if we have darkness we have lies. That if we hate then the truth is not in us. But if we love then the truth is in us. Forgiveness is love. If we don't forgive, then we hate and we don't have the truth. We can't go on loving someone that has hurt us without forgiving. If we want to stop hating, then we have to start forgiving. So if we have the word in us, then we have overcome evil. So even though I was hurt by these two people I still love them. Even though I love them, do I forgive them? It is hard to forgive them right now but I know that God wants me to and so if I could only tell them to their face that I forgive them for what happened and that things can go back to the way they were (with limitations though). I hope that if you have any hurts or have been hurt by someone that you can find it in your heart to forgive them.

Hope you have a great day!

Raeann