No family is without pain, frustration, loss of trust, and a variety of other conflicts that leave us with a need to offer forgiveness to a family member.
My own family has experienced such pain, and the need to forgive and overcome great loss of trust. My younger brother has battled drug addiction for 15 years.....His addiction has brought our family so much heartache and turmoil, especially as he now, serves a 10 year prison sentence due to all the things that are associated with drug addiction.
This video below is a great testament of the power of forgiveness, and how it can literally change your life, and your families.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media-library/video/2015-08-008-step-8-forgiveness-larrys-story-about-drug-addiction-recovery?lang=eng&_r=1
We all need time to work through our pain, loss, and frustrations but I know through the power of our Savior, Jesus Christ, that hope, healing and forgiveness are possible, even in the most challenging of circumstances.
“Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.” - Dr. Sidney Simon
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