Forgiveness

One of the hardest things I have had to do in my life was admitting I was wrong, saying I was sorry and asking for forgiveness. This usually involved another person but sometimes the person I needed to forgive was me.

Then Peter came up to Him and said, “Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I forgive him and let it go? As many as up to seven times?”
Jesus answered him, ”I tell you, not up to seven times, but seventy times seven!” Matthew 18: 21-22

This week’s review is on the movie “The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry” by the Christiano Film Group released in 2009. Set in the 1970’s, this story takes us back to a much simpler time. A time when banana seat bicycles were the main mode of transportation, kids played outside, mom’s had time to sew buttons on shirts, handwritten notes were used instead of texting, pinball machines where the top “video” game, and kids where enthusiastic about mowing the neighbor’s lawn for $3. Now more than 30 years later, that simplicity may be gone, but the same social challenges the movie portrays exist today including raising children as a single parent, dealing with “bullying” in our schools and making the choice to forgive others as the Lord intended.

This movie will make you think. It will make you think about the grudges you hold against others and/or yourself. It will make you see that the choice to forgive has the power to free you, to allow you to give more to others and be a shining example of God’s love for us.

Issue 5