Forgiveness

Me and Jenn!

My mom and I! My cousin Katy and I!

My sister Nichole and my son Austin!

If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.Matthew 6:14-15

This is the verse I came accost today. It sticks out to me because forgiveness is often hard to do. I am a huge believer in forgiveness. But the one person I have never been able to fully forgive is my mom. I love my mom to death and would give anything to have the mother/daughter relationship most have. The pain has been so strong over the past fifteen years. There are times when it seems like we are finally on the right track and then something happens and it puts those bad memories right back at the front of my mind. I have been praying for so long that I would be able to forgive my mom and to be able to have a relationship with her. When I found this verse I felt like this was a sign. The good news is both me and my mom have been on the right path. I was going to wait to say anything about it until she did it, but a week or so ago my mom called me and told me she was ready to accept Jesus into her heart. She told me she wanted to learn to forgive and to heal from her past. She is ready to be saved and ready to talk to Pastor Ray about being baptised. I was blown away. I want my mom to be happy and accepting Jesus is her start! Please pray for my mom. I am overjoyed at her decision and can not wait to see what God will do with her!

Scott and I was talking about my mom and it dawned on us. 2 of my sisters (I have one more sister that hasn't yet given her life to Jesus), my son, my mom and my cousin have accepted Jesus into their hearts and made the decision to live their life for Him in just the past 4 months! How cool is that!!!! It's so neat to sit back and watch all the awesome things God is doing in my families lives. I put pictures of all the ones that have accepted Jesus this year! I added one more of my friend Jenn, she came to me over a year ago telling me she wanted to be baptised and to start living for Jesus. Jenn was never baptised and has yet to pronounce her faith in Jesus.