The Healing Medicine of Forgiveness
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Healthy marriages are built on a foundation of forgiveness. When you choose to forgive, your relationship can weather any storm. John, Greg and Erin give helpful reasons why you should choose forgiveness instead of resentment. Receive the book Desperate Forgiveness with your gift of any amount!
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| 0:00.0 | After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next. |
| 0:07.0 | Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family. |
| 0:11.0 | Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that, resources |
| 0:19.5 | that they suggested. |
| 0:22.3 | They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame, walking me through that |
| 0:27.3 | so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good mom. |
| 0:31.0 | So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all with that focus on the family. |
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| 0:58.7 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | I've heard it said that a healthy marriage is |
| 1:15.0 | is made up of two forgivers and if you've been married a while you know just |
| 1:18.9 | how true that statement is. |
| 1:21.1 | Golly I go back to our early days and I knew I had messed up and |
| 1:25.6 | Dina would look at me like well are you gonna apologize and it's like I know I |
| 1:30.3 | have to apologize for something is it for this no and so it was almost a game for us to kind of get into a groove of learning |
| 1:38.9 | That wasn't intentional, but I still need to forgive it. |
| 1:43.0 | And I didn't mean that quite like it came out. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm still doing that by the way, 35 years later. |
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