{"id":2615,"date":"2019-07-05T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:43:49","slug":"forgiveness-a-sisters-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness&#8211;A Sister&#8217;s Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2616\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Forgiveness-Blog.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My daughter, Melissa\u2019s, story of forgiveness is a beautiful example that I point to and remember for myself.\u00a0 Here\u2019s her story:<\/p>\n<p>My son, David, was born 2 weeks before Melissa turned 2 years old.\u00a0 They grew up both tolerating and loving each other like most siblings.\u00a0 By teenage years, they were close friends until my son started making poor decisions in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa watched (and tried to help) as my David continued to go the wrong direction which in turn left our family in heartache.\u00a0 With all the turmoil, my daughter began being bitter and unforgiving toward her brother.\u00a0 At one of David\u2019s lowest points, Melissa put her feelings aside and reached out to David in compassion.\u00a0 She extended forgiveness at a point when he deserved it the least.\u00a0 This gift of love from his sister mended their relationship.\u00a0 Where David had felt judgment and separation from Melissa, he felt restored by the love of his sister.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the rest of the story\u2014about 6 months after this reunion of brother and sister, David had been walking on a positive path but suddenly passed away.\u00a0 The last 6 months of his life, he and Melissa enjoyed a loving relationship with lots of laughs and great memories that ended all too soon.\u00a0 At David\u2019s funeral, Melissa wrote, \u201c<strong>forgiveness is a gift you give yourself<\/strong>\u201d. Little did she know at the time she extended it to David how much that gift of forgiveness would mean to her after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you need to forgive\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter, Melissa\u2019s, story of forgiveness is a beautiful example that I point to and remember for myself.\u00a0 Here\u2019s her story: My son, David, was born 2 weeks before Melissa turned 2 years old.\u00a0 They grew up both tolerating and loving each other like most siblings.\u00a0 By teenage years, they were close friends until my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}