Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Cheryl McGuinnes
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00037C
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00:14 It's unbelievable to me to see how God
00:16 works in someone's life. 00:18 Sometimes I hear stories and the stories are, they seem like 00:21 what I consider nothing stories at first. 00:24 What I realize is that every story is important. 00:27 It could be way intense like what Cheryl just shared 00:31 with us about her husband, and flying into the Trade Centers. 00:34 All the aftermath of 9/11, and trying to stand up and 00:37 get a hold of her life. 00:38 But you know, what is really cool to me about 00:40 God is that He doesn't look at the bigness or 00:42 smallness of the story. 00:43 He looks at the heart and the issue behind the stories. 00:47 About forgiveness and bitterness and having that 00:50 so take over your life. 00:51 What Cheryl said, which I thought was incredible, is 00:54 that she literally had to start getting up from bed. 00:57 Making her bed so that she doesn't get back in it. 01:00 Doing the right things, getting outside. 01:02 Letting the sun hit her skin, and taking some 01:05 breaths, and looking around her. 01:06 All of that is important in recovery. 01:08 When I first heard, there is two people in my 01:11 life that I heard their story that just hit me as 01:13 far as my own need to ask God help me with 01:17 forgiveness and bitterness. 01:18 It was Cheryl McGuinness and Joyce Swift were the two 01:21 people that just got me as far as their story and what 01:23 they learned to forgive. 01:24 So I went to God, and I'm like God, you know I'm hearing 01:28 what they're saying. 01:30 I'm hearing about forgiveness, I'm hearing 01:32 that it is important. 01:33 But how do you do that. 01:34 My mom tried to self aboard six different times. 01:36 They didn't love me, I was neglected I was 01:38 homeless by twelve. 01:39 After pregnancy and all that junk, I can't do this. 01:42 And finally I just ask God like what Cheryl said. 01:45 It made be overwhelming to think that your going to do it. 01:49 That you are going to some how muster it up yourself. 01:51 Just stop and say, God, I don't even know where to start. 01:54 I don't even know the first step. 01:57 And what He said, my first step is? 01:59 My parents as far as forgiving and all that. 02:01 He said can you imagine your mom as a little tiny girl. 02:05 And I did, I saw a picture of her one time when she was three. 02:08 And he said forgive her, then, when she was three years old. 02:12 before all this stuff hit her so that she got so damaged in 02:16 her own life that to love her own children were 02:18 difficult, forgive her then. 02:20 So, ask God wherever He wants to take you. 02:23 However He wants to help you, so you can forgive the 02:27 people in your life. 02:28 You can move on in life, you can say to God that maybe I 02:32 can see the possibility, the possibility of forgiving. 02:36 An abuser, a parent that wasn't there, a father, who left 02:41 or someone that murdered her husband. 02:45 You know some of the stories are bigger than others, 02:48 but the bitterness in the root of those 02:51 are the same, they are absolutely the same. 02:54 And God said, I never want to leave you in that place, 02:57 because I promise you, you give that to Me I will teach you 03:01 However I have to teach you individually how to do that. 03:04 You will be able to come out of that with those roots 03:08 pulled out and step into a life of joy and a life of healing. |
Revised 2014-12-17