There is no perfect family. We do not have perfect parents,
we are not perfect, we do not marry a perfect person or have perfect children.
We have complaints from each other. We disappoint each
other. So there is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise
of forgiveness.
Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health and spiritual
survival. Without forgiveness the family becomes an arena of conflict and a
stronghold of hurt.
Without forgiveness, the family becomes ill. Forgiveness is
the sepsis of the soul, the cleansing of the mind and the liberation of the
heart.
Whoever does not forgive does not have peace in the soul nor
communion with God. Hurt is poison that intoxicates and kills. Keeping
heartache in the heart is a self-destructive gesture. It's autophagy.
Those who do not forgive are physically, emotionally and
spiritually ill.
That is why the family must be a place of life, not of
death;
Territory of cure and not of illness;
Stage of forgiveness and not guilt.
Forgiveness brings joy where sorrow has produced sadness;
Healing, where sorrow has caused disease.
- Pope Francisco
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