There is hope in forgiveness

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

Life is like writing without an eraser. But the good thing is, you can always write "I'm sorry," and then write a new chapter, a new page, a new beginning...

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.