Abortion/ Adoption: Forgiveness
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Forgiving those who hurt us is one of the hardest but greatest things we will ever do. Melissa Ohden relates the challenges she faced forgiving those, who oversaw her abortion, and tells the beautiful reunion story with her biological mother.
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| 0:00.0 | As we've said many times here, probably the biggest journey of my life was choosing to |
| 0:05.9 | forgive my dad. |
| 0:07.3 | I feel like I've seen more transformation in you since you've forgiven your dad. |
| 0:13.6 | You were angry before, but there's something happen when you release that, that I feel |
| 0:18.9 | like you became the man that God created you to be. |
| 0:21.6 | But that decision was a long journey. |
| 0:26.2 | And it's still a continued decision, you know, just make it and then it's over. |
| 0:30.8 | It literally, like you said, transformed my life. |
| 0:43.8 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter |
| 0:48.7 | most. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 0:50.7 | And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life |
| 0:55.9 | app. |
| 0:56.9 | This is FamilyLife Today. |
| 1:09.9 | Probably the biggest journey of my life was choosing to forgive my dad. |
| 1:15.4 | And there was something that was holding you back then. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.5 | And in some ways, you think I can ever do this. |
| 1:20.8 | I've been hurt too bad and he doesn't deserve to be forgiven. |
| 1:24.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:25.2 | And yet, everybody has a story. |
| 1:26.7 | And I think almost everybody has to forgive someone at some point. |
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