Karen Larritts says some of your closest friends will give you the greatest opportunities to show forgiveness.

Take this to the bank.

Your girlfriend, your best girlfriend, will offend you at some point but forgiveness immediately releases

that person and holding against them.

You're listening to the Reviver Hearts podcast on February 27th,

2023. I'm Danna Gresh, our host is the author of A Doorn, Nancy

Demas Walgum. I know a couple of homeschool young women who made rope in one of their classes. They took three strands of

twine and interwove them to create a rope that could withstand far more pressure

than any one of those strands alone. That's a great illustration of what we read

in Ecclesiasties chapter 4 where it says a chord of three strands is not

easily broken. Now the biblical writer wasn't trying to make a big point about how to make rope.

He was talking about the power of relationship.

And we're about to hear a message for my good friend, Karen Laritz.

Karen has learned about the power of relationships to strengthen us when life is threatening to unravel.

She delivered this message at the very first True Woman conference.

It's a taste of what we call a breakout session.

A chance for those attending a True Woman Conference to participate in a smaller session

based on their particular needs and interests.

Now let's listen as Karen shows why

close relationships with our sisters in Atlanta for 30 years. For the last 28 years there's a group of women,

there's 14 of us, and we call ourselves the stones.

And we're talking about where it says in the Old Testament

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