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Forgiveness and Reconciliation / Apr 4, 04:02 PM
We had our Spring Break coinciding with Easter last week, March 15-24. My birthday was March 14 so it was nice to be able to go home for my birthday and everything. Actually, it was just wonderful to be home… mainly because I needed to see my family and let’s be honest… my fiance… so badly. Got to see some friends from college and catch up (a bit) with them and my family.
Last week of course I went back to work and it was tough. It’s been tough to wake up in the mornings and I’ve been tired and no sleep is enough (although this is not an entirely new phenomenon for me). Just not had a lot of motivation to do what I’m doing. It’s partly because the person I want to partner with in all of this is not here working side by side with me. I didn’t know that Mission Year would be so tough being engaged. I knew it’d be tough but not this tough. Didn’t realize that every time after coming back all I’d want to do is be back at home with Abhi. And we know that this is good for us, learning a lot and both growing, we just wish we could be growing together in the same city – or even the same state! :) But we keep holding out because we’re getting married in the middle of October and we’ll get to finish out our senior year of college together.
Last week it was cool because I got to see some reconciliation happen between someone who works at the health center and one of our fitness center members. I guess something had happened between them that I think was a misunderstanding and my coworker came up to me one day (someone I don’t even know that well) and he said “I want to apologize to this lady who’s coming in right now, so it’s good that you’re here.”
He walked right up to her and told her he wanted to apologize and how he wasn’t even sure how he’d offended her, but he’s trying to serve the Lord and better live for Christ and he knows that whatever behavior it was, it wasn’t a reflection of Christ in her eyes, so he wanted to ask for her forgiveness. He said he’s still working on following Christ and better understanding how that looks. She accepted his apology and shook his hand and said “thanks brother.” Then he looked at me questioningly, like, “how did I do?” and I gave him a smile and said “yeah.” I didn’t have to be privy to that exchange, but it warmed my heart to see him working to reconcile with her. I said a quick prayer, too, thanking God for allowing me to see a bit of His kingdom coming here in North Lawndale.
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