FAMILY, THE PLACE OF FORGETTING...

There is no such thing as a perfect family. We don’t have perfect parents, we aren’t perfect, we don’t marry a perfect person, and we don’t have perfect children. We have complaints from others. We disappoint each other. 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 an arena of conflict and a reduction of punishment. Without hugs, the family falls apart. Forgiveness is the asepsis of the soul, the cleansing of the mind and the freedom of the heart. He who does not forgive does not have peace in his soul or community with God. Pain is another intoxicating care and it kills. Keeping pain in your heart is a self-destructive gesture. It is autophagy. He who does not forgive becomes physically, emotionally and spiritually sick. That is why the family must be a place of life and not of death. The territory of healing and not of disease; scenario of forgiveness and not guilt. Forgiveness brings joy where sorrow brings sorrow, where pain has caused disease.”