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\"11-05-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 I am so glad that you stopped by!<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 What is going on?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Just I am reminded of thoughts of the past couple of years and would like some insight.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I can give you a story from Start Where You Are by Chuck Swindoll.\u00a0 I hope it helps!<\/p>\n

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Joseph after suffering years of abuse brought on by his hateful brothers’ mistreatment, he lived to see the day when the tables were turned.\u00a0 Joseph was powerful, wealthy, respected, and surrounded by bodyguards.\u00a0 His brothers were weak, broke, unprotected, guilty to the core.\u00a0 It was his moment to unleash his rage and retribution.\u00a0 And these guys had it coming…in spades!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead, the son of Jacob and Rachel did the unexpected.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His action shocked his brothers down to their worn-out sandals.\u00a0 After all those years of guilt and dread and self-recrimination, he wasn’t going to spring a get-even attack?\u00a0 Not even a tongue-lashing?\u00a0 As it turned out, those who so richly deserved hatred and retribution received love and forgiveness.\u00a0 And the rest is history…..beautiful, beautiful history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I know what you did.\u00a0 I saw it all.\u00a0 I choose not tell others or you.\u00a0 You thought you could go behind closed doors and pull others in to do this and that for the Lord’s name.\u00a0 I was not naive.\u00a0 I choose to stay.\u00a0 I choose to take the suffering.\u00a0 Why would I do that?<\/p>\n

For this day.\u00a0 This day to say that from the beginning.\u00a0 I have been able to see God’s love for you!\u00a0 God told me to stay and love you.\u00a0 God told me that HE wants HIS LOVE to Be SEEN! \u00a0 I forgive you for it all.\u00a0 I just want you to really see that God’s love and his grace is so MUCH MORE than rules and our own selfish plans<\/p>\n

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But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ\u2014 by grace you have been saved\u2014Ephesians 2:4-5
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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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