Question: To Forgive or Not to Forgive?
EVERYTHING that has come before and since falls under the directive of love. Love is the critical piece that works with forgiveness (for the transgressee & the transgressor). Love allows patience...
View ArticleForgiveness – You have it. Now What?
I had to sit back and think about how so many people have been comfortable treating me so cavalierly and then setting me aside. The answer I came to: I forgave when they asked and forgot their...
View ArticlePsalm 51: Repentance vs. Apology
Repentance is so much more than an apology. It's not something that works by picking and choosing elements that suit you - as The Five Languages of Apology suggests.
View ArticleExcerpt: You Must Believe to Understand
There are many relationships during the course of our lives through which we have to navigate our way. Some of those relationships fail and die because one or both parties involved are unfamiliar with...
View ArticleInterview w/Vanessa Richardson of The Certain Ones Blog Radio Show
Vanessa Richardson of The Certain Ones radio show interview LaShawnda Jones, author of The Process of Asking for, Giving And Receiving Love & Forgiveness and My God and Me: Listening, Learning and...
View ArticleTwo Life Living Lessons from Mom
Nearly everything I learned from my mother, I learned from watching her live; observing how she interacted with and treated others. Occasionally, I missed a lesson and took my cues from how people...
View Article“I am the MOST loving, forgiving, and selfless person EVER!”
"And does the master thank the servant for doing what he was told to do? Of course not. In the same way, when you obey me you should say, ‘We are unworthy servants who have simply done our duty.’” So...
View ArticlePodcasts: The Process of Asking for, Receiving and Giving Love and Forgiveness
Take a listen to recordings of LaShawnda Jones discussing her book, The Process of Asking for, Receiving and Giving Love and Forgiveness. The author speaks about the purpose of the book, what she hopes...
View ArticleWhitney Houston & The Greatest Love of All
Love evolves. Love stretches us. It grows us. It teaches us. Love is more than an emotion and a feeling – it’s a way of life. Where would I be today without love? Without learning that love lives in...
View ArticleHe Is My Husband…
Have you thought about those relationships where God joins hearts and souls before minds are aligned and vows are spoken? When a man and woman try to catch up to what God has ordained as their union?...
View ArticleHow Does Forgiveness Work? by Mel Lawrenz
Forgiveness is a new way of looking at others. It is a radical and countercultural perspective on life. If you believe in forgiveness—that God forgives even though he is not obligated to, and that...
View ArticleEulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney by President Barack Obama
Justice grows out of recognition… of ourselves in each other... then my liberty depends on you being free too. History can’t be a sword to justify injustice. Or a shield against progress. It must be a...
View ArticleACAD – New Self: Ephesians 4
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and...
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