Corrie Ten Boom survived the horrors of a WWII concentration camp. Years later she spoke widely of her experience of the power of forgiveness teaching, "Forgiveness is not an emotion. Forgiveness is an act of the will." After one such speaking event, one of her former camp guards recognized her, approached her, and stuck out his hand to shake hers. She recounted, "I, who had preached so often … the need to forgive, kept my hand at my side. And so … I breathed a silent prayer. Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me Your forgiveness. As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me. And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His."
This week we study Genesis 42-50 and one of the powerful stories of forgiveness in search of principles to guide our own efforts to forgive ourselves and others.
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Music: by Steve Oxen
Sections 12-13 / JSH 1:66-75 - Fellow
Sections 10-11 - Desire
Sections 6-9 - Revelation
Sections 3-5 - Embark
History 27-65 / Section 2 - Work
History 1-26 - Learn
Section 1 - Hearken
New Years - "Ring Out Wild Bells"
Moroni 10 - "perfected in Christ"
Moroni 7-9 - "every good thing"
Moroni 1-6 - "ordained"
Ether 12-15 - "by faith"
Ether 6-11 - "the great deep"
Ether 1-5 - "greater things made manifest"
Mormon 7-9 - "God of miracles"
Mormon 1-6 - "clasped in the arms of Jesus"
3 Nephi 27 - 4 Nephi - "What is it that ye desire of me"
3 Nephi 20-26 - "my people, O house of Israel"
3 Nephi 17-19 - "tarry a little longer"
3 Nephi 12-16 - "all things had become new"
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