Well if you're a single mom, forgiveness is a process. It doesn't happen overnight

and there's a lot of work that has to go into it. And we're going to talk about that today.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr.

Danny Huerta who heads up our parenting team and we're going to hear now from Dr.

Roland Warren who spoke with Focus President Jim Daly about how he learned to forgive the father who left him.

Roland, let me ask you this. In the book you encourage single parent moms to forgive their ex.

Now, I mean, all these things

rattle in my head.

You don't know the man I was married to, Roland.

Are you serious?

I mean, you had to be an angel to forgive that guy for what he did to me and to us.

So let's start there.

How do you break that crusty heart?

And I get it.

There's some legitimate attitudes there, but that's not where the Lord wants you to live.

And it's not a healthy emotional or spiritual place for you to live.

But how do you get over that?

I don't want to say speed bump but it may be a brick wall

in forgiving your ex for what he did

well it is it is it most difficult thing probably in the Christian walk is the challenge

to forgive i mean it it's what's

modeled by Christ on the cross right it's the last thing he did was what forgive what a

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