Smart cats forgive!

Pastor Colin Bond with an example of a Ugandan Highway code road sign!

trange creatures aren’t we? So gullible! We’ll hang on to resentment or painful memories at the expense of losing friendships or family that hurts us much more. How many fathers have longed for their son to return home or to the family business yet have been unable to find the way to reconciliation? How many mothers have carried a broken heart waiting for the child they bore and nursed and reared to adolescence to write a letter of acceptance and love?

There’s something in our human nature that simply gets in the way of happy loving restored relationships that we all long for. It’s a right slippery devil that’s intent on exploding family life, giving us serious heart trouble, destroying the economy and causing death and destruction. What starts as a little trickle of unforgiveness can build up to outright war!

I’m hoping some of the articles in this issue will be a help as courageous folk tell us how unforgiveness hit their lives and how they found a solution to it. I say "I’m hoping" because I’m off tonight to Bristol on my way to the Congo. With the tremendous help of the King’s and Tavistock citizens we established a clinic or small hospital at Bukavu, East Congo three years ago. Since then there has been strife and fighting as one tribe cannot forgive the other and war has continued. The hospital was bombed and looted. I am returning to inspect the restoration of the hospital and plan its re-equipping. Supplies have been generously donated, now we need the money (about £7,000) to send the container load!

We cannot solve all the unforgiveness and its results in the world but God holds us responsible for our own. Don’t skip over this issue. It may hold unexpected blessings for you.

God bless you….abundantly,

Colin

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