Comments on: Of Falcons and Forgiveness https://anitamathias.com/2013/03/02/of-falcons-and-forgiveness/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Wed, 22 Jun 2022 18:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Deliver us from Evil | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2013/03/02/of-falcons-and-forgiveness/#comment-19280 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:47:15 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42119#comment-19280 […] Prayer (Matt. 6 9-13) to organize my thoughts, and am often astonished again by its richness. Forgiving aught against any as a condition for receiving the Lord’s enabling, emerging forgiveness, for […]

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/03/02/of-falcons-and-forgiveness/#comment-19278 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:10:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42119#comment-19278 In reply to Donna.

Thank you, Donna. I am glad you liked it!

]]> By: LA https://anitamathias.com/2013/03/02/of-falcons-and-forgiveness/#comment-19277 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:28:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42119#comment-19277 In reply to Anita Mathias.

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Actually, I don’t have the time to devote to writing.  I find myself without enough time to do much of anything except drive my kid to all his activities and getting kids jazzed about science and math.  🙂  Thank you so much for the complement!!!

]]> By: Donna https://anitamathias.com/2013/03/02/of-falcons-and-forgiveness/#comment-19276 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:02:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42119#comment-19276 Beautiful post.  I am going through a difficult time at work.  This blessed me.  Thank you.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/03/02/of-falcons-and-forgiveness/#comment-19275 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:23:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42119#comment-19275 In reply to LA.

ecause it’s a trained and practiced skill and goes against our instinct. Early in our lives, the burned hand teaches best and our survival depends on not putting ourselves in damage a second time.
f you really boil down forgiveness, it’s the ability to choose to give someone or a situation a second chance because you’ve given the hurt of the first encounter to God and have forgiven the person or the situation.
WOW!
LA, you really, really need to have your own blog. YOu will find it very satisfying, I am sure.

]]> By: LA https://anitamathias.com/2013/03/02/of-falcons-and-forgiveness/#comment-19274 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:23:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=42119#comment-19274 Beautiful post and I think I shall share this in my Sunday School, edited down to 5th grade vocabulary. But I think the imagery of the falcon unable to fly free will speak to the kids wonderfully. Forgiveness is such a tough topic for kids because, I think, because it’s a trained and practiced skill and goes against our instinct. Early in our lives, the burned hand teaches best and our survival depends on not putting ourselves in damage a second time. But carried through our formative years, that same instinct I believe hinders our ability to forgive. If you really boil down forgiveness, it’s the ability to choose to give someone or a situation a second chance because you’ve given the hurt of the first encounter to God and have forgiven the person or the situation.

But I believe differently than the authors of the book about the Job-ish people in my life. They are generally not the unforgivers, but the unhealthy forgivers. The ones who forgive to the point they put themselves into harms’ way again and again. Their over-forgiveness leads to trusting the wrong kinds of people and situations over and over again. I believe forgiveness should be tempered with a good dose of honesty about the person’s honor and ability to hurt us again and again. We must say “no” sometimes in love while at the same time as forgiveness and healing occur.

The tough lesson for kids and us adults, therefore, is teaching them the art of forgiveness without teaching them to be an emotional doormat.

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