Children | Confession | Father | Forgiveness | Guilt

FORGIVENESS
I found this story in Sunday Sermons. A certain seminary professor always introduces his class on the New Testament with a story from his own life. It seems that years and years ago he had told a lie to his father that had caused the parent to be deeply hurt. For years the matter went unresolved. But the guilt and remorse kept gnawing away at him until, finally, he wrote his father a letter. Because he was not even sure that his father would remember, he reviewed the entire episode and asked his father to forgive him. A few days later he received a reply in which the father said, “Of course I remember, and of course I forgive you.” The son said it was like a great weight falling from his shoulders and it made all the difference in his life. But the real payoff came several year later when both his mother and father died within a short time of each…