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Home Session FIVE |
25 May 2005 |
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Theme |
The good news is that God loves me unconditionally |
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Activity |
The search for Dawn's missing earring. |
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"Theme" Song |
Hosea |
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Good News |
Luke 15:11-32: The Prodigal Son (Based on New American Bible) |
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Themes we shared / What we learnt |
- Receiving Forgiveness, especially when it is Unexpected
- Praying for forgiveness
- Prayer fulfilled after being patiently offered to the Lord to receive forgiveness
- Doing things out of love and not hate or spite
- Finding it in our hearts to forgive others
- Learning to accept a difficult situation & be patient with it even though forgiveness is difficult
- Realization that parents love you even if they might not show it
- You can learn to forgive
- God�s forgiveness � that God will be merciful and make us whole
- Unconditional love of parents
- Run a good race � can have many false starts, but we need to finish well!
- Patience � through patience there is reconciliation
- Finding the ability to forgive our parents
- God provides us the opportunities to choose to forgive - over and over and over again, Amen!
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Thoughts for reflection in our daily lives |
Think about the times in your life when you have received forgiveness when you didn't think it was possible.
How did it make you feel?
Can you see a little bit of God in that forgiveness?
Then think about the times in your life today where:
- you would like to receive forgiveness
- you need to forgive
How can experiencing the healing touch of God's unconditional love and forgiveness change your own personal experience of these areas in your life?
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