Our younger daughter was playing. She happily settled at the couch where our cockapoo puppy was blissfully sleeping. Without much warning, in a sweep of her little hand, our daughter shocked the puppy as she pushed her from the couch to make more room. My husband and I looked on in disbelief. Just as grown ups are sinners, desperately in need of the mercy of a loving and forgiving father, so now was our daughter in need of forgiveness from her parents and from her trusted pet, who looked up at her quite surprised by her actions.
A quote from a famous movie says, "Love means never having to say you are sorry." WRONG! Quite the contrary, love means accepting accountability and also offering to one we have offended a verbal demonstration of a heavy heart, burdened by our sin.
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2 comments:
Beautiful post my friend! We have been working really hard on not just apologizing but asking that person to forgive us. Really hard for Emma...but she is trying!!!
Hi Sweet Friend!
Thank you for this post.. We have been dealing with this a lot over here lately... Thankfully, like your sweet puppy, we have some forgiving hearts living under this roof!! A daily reminder, that we all need to seek His forgiveness, whether 4 or 46!!
Miss you,
Diana
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