What brought about this change in you to forgive?
2006-06-19 05:26:40 · 4 answers · asked by rapturefuture 7 in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
I would like to tell Lissa (your first answer) that I am very sorry for her loss~and happy she has found peace with her real father!! To answer your question, yes, because I have a wonderful father, he has never done anything to ever stop me from loving him or being there with him!!! He is a wonderful man, he has always takin' great care of my siblings and I!! I have never been angry enough to attempt to forgive~my teen years were hard enough on the poor guy!!! :) LOL I hope that you love your father just as much~you can always pick out who you will spend your life with, who will be your best friend, but your biological mother and father are chosen by god for you~for specific reasons~you may not always be happy with what they do, but you will always hold a love in your heart for each of them!!!! That no one can erase~even if you don't realize it!!! :)
2006-06-19 05:42:12 · answer #1 · answered by click 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My father was absent most of my life, I only saw him 2 times between the ages of 5 and 31. We had a week long visit in March and I have forgiven him. We are closer now than we have ever been. My stepfather, the man who raised me died last year, and it about killed me. I needed to forgive my real dad, and get to know him before it was too late.
2006-06-19 05:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by GAgirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my father's "mistakes" was that he thought I'd make a good wife at 11(eleven)!
So yes I'm still working through a lot of that but the older I get I realize that we have no idea what we're really capable of, and the more we're willing to forgive others the easier it will be to forgive ourselves and truly become better people.
To answer your question yes *and* it is a p-r-o-c-e-s-s. I have to maintain that decision everyday, like you have to maintain the decision to really love someone longterm. It's quite the same in this situation actually.
2006-06-19 08:32:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was little, I didn't like him at all. He retired at an early age (at 50) and made my mom worked. My mom got beaten up quite frequently, sometimes b/c my dad didn't like the food she made, but most of the time, he beat her up b/c she was too tired to sleep with him after a long day's work.
A week before my dad passed away, he made several apologies my mom. Only at that moment, I realized no matter how bad he was, he's my dad afterall.
2006-06-19 05:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by Forgrat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋