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
3 Nephi 8-11 - "they heard a voice"
3 Nephi 1-7 - "Lift up your head and be of good cheer"
Helaman 13-16 - "got upon the wall"
Helaman 7-12 - "remember him"
Helaman 1-6 - "serious difficulty"
Alma 53-63 - "two thousand sons"
Alma 43-52 - "preparations for war"
Alma 39-42 - "my son, go thy way"
Alma 36-38 - "O Jesus, thou Son of God"
Alma 32-35 - "no place to worship"
Alma 30-31 - "I have all things as a testimony"
Alma 23-29 - "I ought to be content"
Alma 17-22 - "an instrument in the hand of God"
Alma 8-16 - "How long shall we suffer"
Alma 5-7 - "can you imagine"
Mosiah 29-Alma 4 - "that he might reclaim them"
Mosiah 25-28 - "I have repented...and been redeemed"
Bonus: Mosiah 18 with Maria Eckersley
Mosiah 18-24 - "none could deliver them but the Lord their God"
Mosiah 11-17 - "here is the man"
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