Key to Forgiveness

Yes I missed yesterday, but I've come up with this thought. Whenever I miss, just know that I had a good reason and that I will make up for it the next day. I say this also because this weekend will be another weekend that I will not be posting because I will be away. As far as yesterday goes I had a good reason see I was at church all day at this working retreat getting all the things ready for the actual retreat this weekend and by the time I got home it was like 11:52 and what I was thankful for, especially yesterday, was way to important to me to just throw it together in 8 minutes.

So today and yesterday's blog is about how Im thankful for friendship. Now I have a lot of friends, and they are all kinds of friends. The girls I work with are my friends but well I only see them at work hahha but they still my friends. Friends from school, friends from old schools like high school or elementary who I still keep in touch with. Friends who I hang out and have fun with, and ok I dont know if this is just me, but every now and then I meet someone who I guess is just exactly like me (as far as sarcasm and making everything funny) and so literally not a single word that we say to each other is serious at all! From the second we see each other till we leave and on fb or txt....ALWAYS messin and bein mean to each other. I dont think I would consider these people "friends" cuz we never have friend moments but I just think it's funny when I mhave people like that in my life hahhaha

But last night I was reminded of one of the BEST type of friends I have....the kind of friends that you can cry with.....And what means more to me, the kind of friends that you can cry with and then within minutes be back to laughing and messing with each other and acting like "no we didnt just have a moment and cry and remind each other how much we love each other" lol....but forever and always those moments even if you don't talk about them specifically again, will always be in your heart and you'll always know who you can really count on when you need someone to talk to, or someone to hold you, or someone to pray for/with you.

The second thing I'm thankful for, is still talking about friends but this time it's more specific to what my friends tell me. Im thankful to have friends who love me and truly want to help me when I need help. Im thankful that yesterday one of my friends reminded me that the most important part in moving on with your life after you have made a mistake, is to forgive yourself for it. Of course you should be sorry and apologize, but after you've apologized and even after the person has forgiven you , we still sometimes beat ourselves up for what we did. I'm thankful I was reminded of this, because we all have those things on our conscious that always seem to bug us but we need to let them go and accept that we did wrong but that we are sorry and let ourselves move on from our own mistakes.

CHALLENGE: We all have things in our past and in our lives that we may not be particularly proud of, and Im talking about things we have done or caused. Or situations that we can't really let go of. Im not gonna tell you to let it go cause I know it's not that easy. But I will challenge you to try to let it go, and realize that the past is over and you cant go back to it anymore. You can only try your hardest to make right now the best and to make decisions to be a good person right now. One of the things I learned yesterday was that if we have faith God will always forgive us and all we can do is truly want to change for the better, but usually we are the ones that can not forgive ourselves. We need to forgive ourselves sometimes and allow ourselves to move on and be better people. Start over again.