Tag: Unforgiveness
Posted on April 7, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I was 19 years old working a summer job between college semesters painting our little town’s city hall. It was a season of experiencing new life in my spiritual walk with Jesus. One day, I was overjoyed to have a conversation with a local… Continue Reading “Choosing Risky Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Bitter, Bitterness, Communication, Faith, Good Communication, Hard conversations, Hate, Healing Words, Honest, Honesty, Hope, love, Loving Words, Offended, Offensive, Relationships, Right Relationships, Speak the truth in love, Speak Truth, Truth, Unforgiveness, Words
Posted on January 13, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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For as far back as I can remember, I have known the words to the old hymn: Amazing Grace. But the truly amazing thing is how long it has taken me to understand them. The lyrics were written by John Newton, an Anglican minister,… Continue Reading “Choosing to Accept an Unlikely Rescue”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Amazing Grace, Condemnation, Condemned, Damn you, Damned, Dirty Rotten Sinner, Extend Grace, Fair, Fair Play, Fairness, Faith, Forgiven, Gift, Good News, Gospel, Grace, Gracious, Humble, Humility, hymns, Jesus, John Newton, Just, Justice, Let Go, love, Nano threads, Receive Grace, Release, Released, Rescue, Rescued, Right, Salvation, Saved, Self Righteous, Self-Righteousness, Sinner, Undeserved Favor, Undeserved Gift, Unforgiven, Unforgiveness
It’s a condition that I have had for many years now. I am prone to develop infections in my colon that can be extremely painful. It has put me in the hospital in the past, and I have come to recognize the feeling in… Continue Reading “Choosing Real Comfort”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Comfort, Confusion, Desensitized, Discomfort, Emotional Pain, Feel better, Feelings, God's Comfort, guilt, Identity, Internal Wholeness, Internet porn, Medicate, Medication, Misunderstood, Negativity, Numb, Numbing the pain, Pain, Porn, Pornography, Psychic Pain, Real Comfort, Sadness, Self Reliance, Self-medicate, Self-Medication, Sickness, sin, Soul Medication, Symptoms, Unforgiveness, Wholeness
Posted on March 28, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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Is “spring cleaning” a real thing? For some, this annual purging is what marks the official emergence from the dark survival mode of winter. It’s a time to step into the bright and hopeful newness of a fresh season. It’s a regenerated start, embracing… Continue Reading “Choosing to Declutter”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anxiety, Anxious Thoughts, Bad Habits, Cleaning, Cleansing, Decluttering, fear, forgiveness, freedom, Grudges, Letting Go, Making Changes, New Habits, Old Habits, Releasing, Resentment, Rethinking, Self Evaluation, Spiritual Bath, Spring Cleaning, Unforgiveness, Washing
Posted on February 28, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I was deliberately maligned. A ministry co-worker, years ago, told my supervisor that I had screamed at her when she had confronted me. When this was brought to my attention, I knew right away that she was covering for her own bad behavior in… Continue Reading “Choosing the Path of the Unoffended”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anger, Angry, Betrayed, Bitter, Falsely Accused, forgive, forgiveness, Free, freedom, Grudge, Grudge Free, Hurt, Hurtful, Letting Go, Living Free, Maligned, Offended, Offense, Offense Free, Release, Releasing, Resentful, Resentment, Self Righteousness, Unfair, Unforgiveness, Unoffendable, Unoffended
Posted on October 25, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It’s a momentous week for me. I have a birthday coming up, and it’s not just any ol’ number. I’m about to cross what I have always considered the threshold of old age. I’ve been asking myself for awhile if I have found any… Continue Reading “Choosing Maturity”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Acceptance, Accepting Differences, Aging, Birthday, Childlike, forgive, forgiveness, Growing Up, Growth, Like a Child, Mature, Maturity, Old, Old Age, Spiritual Maturity, Trust, Unforgiveness
Posted on September 27, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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My father was a boy during World War 2. He often heard of atrocities that America’s enemies, the Japanese and the Germans, were committing. According to the stories, those foreigners were the villainous aggressors, and they were seeking to come to our country to… Continue Reading “Choosing to Not Be Like Jonah”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Animosity, Bad People, Bitterness, Cancel, Canceling, Character of God, Compassion, Compassionate, Enemies, Enemy, Evil, Evil Behavior, forgive, forgiveness, God Is Love, God's Heart, God's love, God's Mercy, Grace, Hate your enemies, Hatred, Jonah, Judgment, Love your enemies, Merciful, Mercy, Unforgiveness
Posted on May 3, 2021
by Jeff Herringshaw
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My stomach muscles tightened as I sat in the YWAM class and admitted to myself that I hated those kids. Before we joined Youth With A Mission (YWAM), I had taught English to middle schoolers at a California inner-city school. My first three years… Continue Reading “Choosing to Forgive When I Don’t Feel Like It”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Anger, Betrayal, Bitter, Bitterness, forgiveness, Getting Unstuck, Hatred, Hurts, Inner Healing, Moving Forward, Releasing, Unforgiveness
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