Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

There's a great talk in the April 2003 general conference by David E. Sorenson.

He was in the presidency of the 70th at the time.

It's called forgiveness will change bitterness to love.

And he talks about these two farmers in the middle of Utah.

Mike, you probably remember this story.

I do.

That and Walt who got in disagreement over water rights and ended up becoming actually

a murder case in just two neighbors with fighting and murder and the children and grandchildren

are involved later that they still hate each other.

Then Elder Sorenson goes through the story of Joseph where he says you can change this

bitterness to love.

And this is what he says.

That is not to say that forgiveness is easy.

When someone has hurt us or those we care about that pain can almost be overwhelming.

It can feel as if the pain or the injustice is the most important thing in the world and

that we have no choice but to seek vengeance.

But Christ to the Prince of Peace teaches us a better way.

It can be very difficult to forgive someone the harm they've done to us.

But when we do, we open ourselves up to a better future.

No longer does someone else's wrongdoing control our course.

When we forgive others, it frees us to choose how we will live our own lives.

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