FAMILY FORGIVENESS
Richard Exley tells of an account when his daughter brought home the man who would later become her husband. She carelessly caught a fringed kitchen towel on fire when she tried to use it to carry a hot coffee pot. Richard berated his daughter in front of his wife and future son-in-law. His daughter ran to her room in tears, and Richard was left in confused silence. After cleaning up the mess, he went to his daughter and told her there was no excuse for what he had done and asked for her forgiveness. He told her if she would go back downstairs, he would apologize to her special friend as well. His daughter did forgive him and relationships were restored. Exley concluded from this experience: “Apologizing is never easy, but it is mandatory, especially within the family. Unfortunately, some fathers refuse to apologize to their children, even when they know they are in the wrong. They reason, erroneously, that if they…
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