Two of my granddaughters, Claire and Grace, spent a week with us. After my recording a new podcast with their mother, Maureen, which will drop next week, I thought it would be fun to have the girls on the podcast!

This week's episode is my conversation with Claire and Grace. We talked about growing up Broggi among other topics. Also, you will hear Claire reference hard things their family has been through. If you would like to know more about those hard things, you listen to past episodes called:

Walking by Faith

Losing Jane (Parts 1 &2)

Seasons of Hardship

I trust you will be encouraged listening to this very young generation of Rare But Real Girls and...  I hope to record with more of  my granddaughters in the future ... it sure was a fun time with the two of them and a spur of the moment recording! Enjoy!

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Maureen joins me on this week's podcast as we wrap up our short series on walking in forgiveness. She has asked me what I thought about addressing it from the standpoint of forgiving ourselves.  This is so important because so many of us struggle with dealing with our own sin before the Lord, and we often beat ourselves up continually about our past sins – especially when we have a limited understanding of Christ, death, burial, and resurrection. And when I say limited, I mean, we understand it, and we know we are saved - we know God has forgiven all our sins past, present,  and future. We know there's nothing we can do to earn God's acceptance– yet, even with this knowledge, we can become stagnant about the freedom in forgiveness. We know we've been forgiven, but we struggle sometimes in our experience. There are reasons for this - one of them being that Satan is the accuser of the brethren and he loves to condemn us for our past sins. Sometimes we're doing just fine and then suddenly we feel condemned all over again.

This is not God's way. He wants us to deal with our sins honestly, so that we can walk in forgiveness and experience His love and grace.

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Everyone has been wronged and we've all wronged others. Chesed joins me on this week's podcast to talk about how God helps her walk in forgiveness. She speaks to how she's handled it personally and how she is teaching her girls in this area. 

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GraceAnna joins me as we continue the conversation of forgiving from the heart.

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I get asked a lot about forgiveness and letting go of hurt. How do you forgive when someone has not asked for forgiveness? How do you forgive if someone doesn't even know the pain they inflicted? Do you just forget about it? Do you avoid people?

What does the Bible say about forgiveness and bitterness? How does an unforgiving heart affect us?

This week's podcast is the first in a short series dealing with this topic.  In the next few weeks, I will ask my girls to join me and get their wisdom concerning forgiveness in relationships. 

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Epilogue

"Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is a strong as death, jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, it would be utterly despised."

God's love is as strong as death and that kind of love is a gift from Him. 

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The only way a couple can truly live "happily ever after" is if they live their lives in obedience to the Lord. 

The bride has learned her loyalty is to her husband, and she wants everyone to know. She wants the world to know there is no way any other man can get to her, can steal her heart, and steal her affections. She stands with her husband, no matter what. She belongs to him and him only.

And isn't that the way it's supposed to be in a believers's life? Loyal to the Lord. The world cannot get to her to steal her heart or her affections. A believing woman stands with Christ, no matter what -  she belongs to Him and Him only. 

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Though weddings are beautiful, they are not nearly as beautiful as a marriage that has stood the test of time and commitment. Real beauty emerges after some heartache. Real beauty is when a couple is still dancing after 25, 35, 45, 65 years together. Real beauty emerges when they are forgiving of each other's sins, and when they don't see ugly, even if they've lived with ugly for years. When a husband and wife are still meeting at their own personal altar, still taking pictures with their heritage, and finally so sad when death separates them in this life.  That's real beauty and we learn all about this kind of beauty in this week's podcast. 

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God teaches us some important lessons in this chapter not only about our relationship with our husbands, but also about our relationship with Him.

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When I taught this chapter, I titled it "Where Did Their Love Go?" Their love really didn't go anywhere - it's just that the bride allowed it to fade. Like her, sometimes we allow our love to fade. We drift from the one we love. We sometimes wander, we sometimes forget, and even sometimes don't want to be bothered with the one whom we love the most.

We also learned that one of the best things we can do when this happens is to rehearse all the reasons we loved in the first place. We also learned that our love sometimes fades for the Lord! The One who saved us! But when He saved us, we became His friends. Jesus, what a friend of sinners!

I trust this week's podcast will encourage you.

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