Greetings Prayer Warriors,
Anyone who has been married and finds themselves beyond the honeymoon stage will begin to have disagreements or even different perspectives on situations. If not discussed or resolved, those have the potential to lead to fights, and sometimes people don’t fight fair. A lifetime of marriage provides fertile soil. Most choose to plant beautiful thing there, but when one is inattentive or insensitive, they invariably can sow some weeds of disunity, anger and resentment that seek to choke all that could bear fruit.
What to do? The best weed killer is forgiveness. Apologies go a long way too. That is impossible without humility. Humility doesn’t begin with, “But I was right!” Forgiveness is not condoning. Forgiveness won’t erase your memories. It won’t make you the superior one. However, when one forgives a hurt, injustice, or wound, in imitation of Christ, a torrent of graces will be released, rehydrating all that is wilting, including you. Forgiveness sows new seeds in the heart. The weeds will die, but still need to be pulled. The flowers will bloom, but still need fertilization and ongoing watering. Attentiveness needs to be nourished.
Consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:6-7
Lord, take off our blinders and help us to see that “it takes two to tango." Help us see that holding on to anger and resentment slowly poisons us. Help us to drop the excuses that prevent us from focusing within. As we see our own brokenness, in your mercy, heal us. Grant us the virtue of humility, that in recognizing our own woundedness, we may have compassion upon our spouse’s. Help us each to forgive one another and plow together to create a garden of praise that may glorify You.
If we say, “We have not sinned,” we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 1 John 1:9
May the Light of the Son bring forth bouquets of reconciliation and forgiveness in all the gardens of our hearts!
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
Reflect the Son! Pass it on!
