The Road To Forgiveness

One man's story--Joseph.  How he could not reconcile until there was evidence of ownership and a change of heart.

Understanding that forgiveness and trust are two separate things.  Learning to release the hurt if the offending party has no interest in asking for forgiveness. Remember, forgiveness is a solo, reconciliation is a duet.

We are always certain people will hurt us, but what do you do to help mend a relationship if YOU are the one who did the offense?

There are so many misconceptions over this word.  This help clarify what forgiveness actually is in a balanced way.

This helps us look at who we are INDEPENDENT of what has been done to us.  Am you going to let what happened to you become the defining moment of my life?

Grief and mourning are different.  Mourning opens a positive door to positive change to begin the healing process.  This clarifies the differences between grieving and mourning--critical to moving forward.

People can get stuck in the unfairness of it all and replay mental tapes over and over again.  Discovering whether we are stuck in the dungeon can motivate us to move through it.  Otherwise we become a slave to the one who hurt us.

Intuitively people know the difference between anger and bitterness but this clarifies one of the main places people get stuck in the process of letting injustices go.

Pain does strange things.  Anger that I turn in on myself can lead to depression.  This show creates an understanding of how depression works and some things that can help you out of that valley.

It is so important that we deal with the rocks of hurt and pain in our own backpack and not borrow someone else's rocks to put  in our backpack as well.

Pain changes the way we see our world.  Fully understanding the depth of our losses  helps us fully understand how the losses have  impacted me relationally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

The most important thing you can do on your journey to forgiveness, is to identify exactly what happened, to identify what kind of emotions you're are feeling, and identify who or what caused the injury. Jim Velez will walk you through that process in this episode.

Professional counselor and college educator, Jim Velez, takes you on a journey down the road to forgiveness.  In this first episode, Jim will talk about forgiveness and what that exactly look like.  Buckle up and prepare for a life changing journey.