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How is it unmerciful to be relieved that someone's cruel and evil deeds that have harmed so many will finally end? Now if I said I hope she pays for all she's done, you'd be right, but I didn't and it's not what I hope for. I have never wished ill on her.

I have been praying for her for a time. I will continue and increase that. She has ignored me plenty of times in the past when I've made small efforts so I don't think she wants anything to do with me now.

No, I'm not tearing myself up with anger. I'm stating details so the reader understands the story. Very different from being angry. I've long ago accepted that this is who she is and to make a life away from those she influences.

My mother is 81. I haven't spoken to her in 13 years--nor has she spoken to me or been there for me when I had surgery, when I learned my husband was cheating on me and spending us into extreme debt, when I got divorced and was left as a single parent to 6 kids still at home, when both my...

Thank you. Good advice. I think you've put a lot of things in good perspective. I keep fearing that by not doing anything to repair the situation TODAY, I will be judged by God as unforgiving. Yet it seems pretty clear the situation will continue as is. I can either agree to be part of the abuse...

How old is your child? If you feel she needs to be protected and not allowed unsupervised visits, you need to do that. I'm in a situation where my mother, who is likely a narcissist, has caused a LOT of damage to my relationships with other people, including my siblings and some of my children...

Romans tells us to do good to those who hate us. It will heap coals on their heads and they'll be ashamed of how they've treated us. I effectively did this my whole life with my family. They did not feel ashamed or change their behavior. They concluded that I was quite okay with abuses and...

Thank you. That means a lot. I certainly have tried very hard to live right and as God wills. One of the things that went on in both my family and marriage was constantly being told I was wrong and in the wrong. It's led me to constantly question myself which isn't altogether bad, but I think...

Forgiveness is a subject I keep coming back to over and over. Between a dysfunctional family of origin and a (now ex) husband who did a lot of things no loving husband would ever do, I've had a lot to forgive. Their behaviors continue in various ways that have included working to turn my kids...

I've heard quite a few horribly racist things come out of the mouths of certain democrats. Regardless, I don't say that democrats as a group are all those things. Further, I've known hundreds of Republicans over a life of working in politics and I have yet to meet a single one who is any of...

How timely. I came here today because the online reading I'm doing today is on this exact verse. The devotional from that site says unforgiveness and offense block our abiding in Him: "Unforgiveness and offense – This not only builds walls towards the people you are offended with, but it also...

Parents and spouses should build up and help us get to Heaven. I divorced my husband after years of emotional, verbal, psychological abuse that had me depressed & considering suicide. I figured suicide is not what God wants, either. But ultimately, the final straw was learning he was digging us...

This very much fits some of my reading yesterday speaking of God and His Bride--that one who loves thinks of what the other wants first.

This is a very popular phrase in Christianity: You must have a personal relationship with Jesus. How would you explain this to someone new to Christianity? How do we have a 'personal relationship' with someone we can't see, touch, or hear? What does such a 'relationship' look like? What does...

Except for the part where there is no subset of Republicans who 'embrace misogyny, racism, bigotry and homophobia.' This is a lie the mainstream media repeats over and over. But it is a lie. There is no subset of Republicans who thinks like that.

Yes.

Look into the concept of the Dark Night of the Soul, as written about by St. John of the Cross. Sometimes, we don't feel His presence the way we want to. But if we are serious in our faith and love of God, we will continue following Him even when we don't have that spiritual consolation, and...

I have attempted to talk to my siblings and my father. I have been told in clear terms that I am the problem and I deserve any way they treat me. I have had an email conversation with one of these kids. She is in a place of anger and the only answer, to her, is that I continue to view myself as...

I am struggling to integrate these Christian beliefs into my own experience. Turn the other cheek. Heap coals of kindness on their heads. Kindness wins people over. I think mostly this can be true. However, I was raised in an alcoholic family, cast as the scapegoat, and the more I turned the...