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    Journey to Forgiveness
    Journey to Forgiveness
    Journey to Forgiveness
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    Journey to Forgiveness

    By Kimberly Jay

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    Forgiveness isn't as easy as saying "I forgive you". Sincere forgiveness takes work; it is a journey, at the end of which there is sure to be personal growth. Along the way there may also be tears, smiles or laughter, but you can be assured the trip is worth the investment. It's time to know the peace of God and journey to forgiveness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDvnmskm Enterprises
    Release dateJun 22, 2018
    ISBN9781540149947
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      Journey to Forgiveness - Kimberly Jay

      Acknowledgements

      FIRST, I WOULD LIKE to thank and honor God for giving me this labor of love. Truly, I would be nothing without Him in my life. I would like to thank Kaira for being always willing to jump in and help me around the house or with the little ones, so I could write. A special thank you goes to my Pastor, Marvin Green for being a constant source of encouragement along this road and quietly pushing me when I wasn’t operating within my best effort. Kim Washington, I cannot thank you enough for stepping up to the challenge of becoming my accountability partner- if you had not pushed me to a completion date, I may still be tinkering away on the journey. I would like to thank Asia Baker and Lady Tiaisha Sprouse for agreeing to be my beta team- reading this before I had a chance to make any corrections; picking up on any details that needed more attention and finally spreading the word about this devotional.

      Antonio Tamonia, for the late nights you spent listening to me read whatever had been most recently written; the countless times you wrapped your arms around me in a much needed hug as tears poured from deep within, thank you seems such an inadequate phrase. There were so many times you were an encouragement, simply through your interest in what I had written or understanding and knowing when a break from writing was needed. Again, I am at a loss for words to express my gratitude for your attentiveness. Thank you is the only phrase my brain grabs hold of and while it doesn’t seem like enough, I give it most sincerely to you. I truly appreciate having you in my life.

      Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank Jenny M Lane, for her willingness to step in as my editor, when I didn’t think an editor would be a reality for me.

      I am so appreciative to each of you and am honored you chose to share in this experience with me. There is not a gift in this world I could give to accurately show this thankfulness I have for the role you have taken in my life  and in bringing Journey to fruition. You have blessed my life beyond measure and I hope Journey has been as much- if not more- of a blessing to you and your lives. Without you, it would have been impossible for this book to realize its full potential.

      Dear Friend,

      I want to personally thank you for picking this book out of the gazillions you could have chosen from to read. Truly, Journey to Forgiveness has been a labor of love, growth and of course- forgiveness and I am extremely grateful to God for choosing me to live and learn through each experience in Journey and more.

      Each experience I share with you is a true experience for me. Though the order in which they appear may not accurately reflect the sequence in which they showed themselves in my life.  I have deliberately chosen to disorient the arrangement because to me that is how forgiveness works. We do not always forgive people or situations or circumstances in the order that they happen to us, right?

      Again, this is my Journey to Forgiveness. I hope and pray that through my experiences you may see areas in your own life where forgiveness is still needed or where forgiveness was given. Each situation you will read about is accompanied with a verse that has helped me to continue to live in and walk through forgiveness. It is my prayer that these verses will also help you as you continue to live through your own forgiveness journey and any forgiveness roads you may find yourself on in the future.

      Again, I thank you for making the decision to Journey to Forgiveness with me. May it be healing and refreshing to your soul.

      YOURS WITH LOVE,

      Kim

      I Am She 

      How is it that I ended up here,

      Standing next to a well,

      Conversing with a man- who is so much more-

      begging for this living water He speaks of?

      Yes. I am she.

      And where do I go or what do I do,

      Now that I have touched the simple hem of a simple garment;

      Worn by a not so simple man?

      Yes. I am she.

      And when did my sins overtake me so-

      That I now stand chained and bound,

      Much too ashamed to even look my accusers in the eye?

      Had it not been for the one they call ‘Teacher’, a stick and some sand-

      My punishment; my grave would have been somewhere in that dry land.

      Yes. I am she.

      I am she whose tears poured over Thy feet.

      I am she whose hair did dry and cleanse.

      I am she whose kisses did not cease.

      I am she that you have seen and tried not to.

      How can it be that I am she?

      Washed and set free-

      Saved and lost all at once-

      Yes. I am she.

      Day One

      FORGIVENESS, AS DEFINED by Merriam Webster’s online dictionary, is the act of forgiving. The same dictionary explains the act of forgiving as the following: to stop feeling angry or resentful toward (someone) for an offense, flaw, or mistake; to make allowances for, to feel no resentment toward, to feel no malice toward, to harbor no grudge against, to bury the hatchet with; to let bygones be bygones; to cancel a debt. In other words, forgiveness requires action from the forgiver and not the forgivee. Forgiveness takes work and I have learned that it is not an easy thing to do.

      The years 2013 through the early parts of 2015 were awesome years for me. I felt like I was finally accomplishing things- finding my voice if you will. I was standing up for things I believed in and fighting for injustices I saw happening all around me. I was working in a field that was fulfilling and rewarding. I was happy.

      I understand now that happiness is temporary.

      In April of 2015, my daughter called me at work, crying and begging me not to be upset or angry. I knew before the words poured out of her: she was pregnant. I remember taking a deep breath and slowly exhaling. I remember telling my sixteen-year-old that we would get through this; that I was not angry with her; that I loved her. A few weeks later, I would be at work and she would call me yet again, in hysterics.

      I guess now would be an appropriate time to let you all know that hysterics for my daughter is more than what you may think them to be. As a writer, I am not sure if the words exist to describe her level of hysteria. I had long since made peace with the mental illness that plagued her and accepted ‘normal’ was not something that would happen with her and, by extension, me. We would have good days and not so good days, but they would all be determined by my daughter and her perception of events. I knew no matter how much I told her it was a flat tire, she would see the car as totaled. All of this, I had accepted. I no longer tried to fight it. I learned to embrace the good days and hold on through the bad. As awful as it sounds, I grew increasingly appreciative that she had gone to live with her father.

      But- back to the day in question and her hysteria...

      All I could do was try to calm her down and talk her off her current ledge. She had gotten in an argument or disagreement with her father, again. He had ‘put

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