Quote: I couldn't agree more. I think that perhaps it is time to work on forgiving my own MIL, even though she is very much alive and very much an active role in our lives. This forgiveness will have to be of the on-going kind. Ugh.
Yep, forgiveness is a long term journey... it really took 4 solid months of work in this area to forgive Mr. Wonderful for leaving me and the girls. I had my wonderful surrogate mother as my head coach and the Lenten season as a means of doing the work.
And guess what? The good news is that Lent is just one week away...
So how about we do this together?
Last year, I went to Stations of the Cross every Friday evening (barring a few where my presence was required elsewhere)--it was somehow extremely cathartic to travel the road to Calvary and forgive.
Yes, I usually walked out of the church in tears, but found solace hanging out with my surrogate parents and having a beer afterward... Since they also had a disabled son and were separated for nearly a year, I found them credible and worth the effort to listen to what they were trying to tell me.
So here's what I will do for Lent: give up chewing gum and forgive my MIL. Are you in? Or do I have to place bets on my own thread as well?
Bets
"There are only 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
