love and forgiveness
February is a month all about love. Our family memory verse for this month is "Let us love one another because love comes from God. And everyone that loves is born of God and knows God. He that loves not, knows not God. God is love" (1John 4:7-8) ....He that loves not, knows not God. Those words came into my heart like a weight. For months, okay maybe more like years, I have wrestled with how to love the people who act unloving towards me. This month another word began to fester in my soul "forgiveness". A few weeks ago there was a huge women's event that was simulcast across our country, IF: Gathering. Maybe you heard of it. Maybe you went. I'm sure if you participated in any part you have also been chewing on some things. One of the women shared about a very difficult time she went through when her marriage fell apart. She wrote out Ephesians 4:31 - 32 "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you,