"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." (Ephesians 4.32)
Because God has forgiven us, we must forgive others.
The past couple of months, I have been struggling with this a lot. It so tough to forgive those who have done wrong towards you, and in knowing that they are in the wrong, I feel like they do not deserve my forgiveness; but they truly do. They deserve our forgiveness just as much as we deserve God's forgiveness.
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Ellen, Lauren, Me, and Chloe
at Camp!! |
From coming home from camp and leaving the most amazing people I have ever met, to coming back to school and keeping up with my studies, I have been hit with tons of obstacles. As a senior in college, I expected the hardships of trying to find a job, juggling organizations, and worrying about how I am going to pay this and that, but I never thought these stressful events would break me down physically and emotionally. It's so tough going through these things with my sister here, my brother there, my father and little brother somewhere else, and me all alone up here in Oxford. I sometimes feel like I have been dropped in the middle of the ocean with no life vest. As humans, we do not make that extra step to be vulnerable and ask for help, and that stands true especially with me. I want to do everything and anything on my own to prove to others that nothing is wrong. As I constantly do that to myself, I am slowing breaking down piece by piece.
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Me and my two roommates,
Adam and Chase, at the Grove. |
I now know that I need to stop, think, breathe, and ask for HELP!! It's okay to ask for help, because I know that there will be someone standing right there next to me with a helping hand.
I love that I have some amazing friends everywhere in the world, so wherever I am, I know someone will be there right next to me.
I want to take this time to say Thank You. Thank you for being my friend, thank you for being true to me, and thank you for just being there.
Even though I have lost an amazing person in my life that will always and forever be with me in spirit, I am now content to know that I have those standing next to me through anything here on Earth.
Erika Watson
