Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
12/10/2021
There is NO Perfect Family!
There is NO Perfect Family. I was reading today how the joy of Christmas is often Lost. The truth is, there is no perfect family because none of us are perfect. Here is an article written by Pope Francis about the Perfect Family. I hope it touches you. I pray that we do not let anyone steal our joy of what Christmas is all about. Blessings
“There is no perfect family. We have no perfect parents, we are not perfect, do not get married to a perfect person, neither do we have perfect children.
We have complaints about each other. We are disappointed by one another. Therefore, there is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise of forgiveness.
Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health and spiritual survival.
Without forgiveness, the family becomes a theater of conflict and a bastion of grievances. Without forgiveness the family becomes sick.
Forgiveness is the sterilization of the soul, cleansing the mind, and the liberation of the heart.
We have complaints about each other. We are disappointed by one another. Therefore, there is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise of forgiveness.
Anyone who does not forgive has no peace of soul and communion with God. Pain is a poison that intoxicates and kills. Maintaining a wound of the heart is a self-destructive action. It is an autophagy.
He who does not forgive sickens physically, emotionally, and spiritually. That is why the family must be a place of life and not of death; an enclave of cure not of disease; a stage of forgiveness and not of guilt.
Forgiveness brings joy where sorrow produced pain; and healing, where pain caused disease.”
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As a parent, I learn that there must be no limit to forgiving my kids and what they do. I may feel hurt about what they’ve said and by how they’ve behaved but you can’t allow bitterness to take root!
But, after all the talking, disciplining, and rebuking (and the yelling), we must continue to love and forgive. Okay, I should perhaps say, we must LEARN to continue to love and forgive.
Why? Well, because that’s what we parents should do. It’s what Jesus does. Because that’s how our children will learn about what forgiveness means.
And, to people of the faith, … because most importantly God has first forgiven us of our sins, even while we’re still sinners.
May God help us to be more forgiving and loving towards our family and others around us. I love all of you and bless you to rise above the differences in your life and rediscover the peace that surpasses understanding in those places. Whether to forgive is all about your decision and has nothing to do with the offender. Don’t allow the paralysis and the isolation of unforgiveness to steal the joy of Christ in your life.
Mercy Me Almost Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7WEYwZrrs4
