Category: forgiveness

• Elizabeth

  This Suffering Servant of God dismantles all human logic about how we should live when deeply hurt.

  thespiritofmemories

  August 6, 2025

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, religion, Sorrow

  bible, christianity, divorce, faith, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, infidelity, Jesus, life, love, marriage, mercy, relationships, single motherhood, unplanned pregnancy

• Living Your Eulogy: The Importance of Relationships

  

  O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah. And now, O LORD, for what do…

  thespiritofmemories

  February 9, 2025

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships

  death, eulogy, forgiveness, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, living, love, mercy, relationships

• Words Hold Power

  

  These words tumble around in life. Spilling over paper, over voices, over music. Spilling through communion, through worship, through anger. Spilling into memory, into conscience, into emptiness. Spilling, ever spilling.

  thespiritofmemories

  August 11, 2024

  forgiveness, grace, health, home, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  bible, creation, death, faith, friends, God, grace, HESED, Jesus, life, love, mercy, power, relationships, vulnerable, words

• A Parable On Experiencing The Father’s Love

  

  The music from our Father’s house radiates. Walk in His love and dance to His song.

  thespiritofmemories

  June 20, 2023

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  conviction not condemnation, dance, dancing in joy, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, music, relationships, salvation, sin, songs of forgiveness, songs of grace, songs of love

• A Parable On Experiencing The Father’s Love

  

  The music from our Father’s house radiates. Walk in His love and dance to His song.

  thespiritofmemories

  June 19, 2023

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  conviction not condemnation, dance, dancing in joy, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, music, relationships, salvation, sin, songs of forgiveness, songs of grace, songs of love

• Time Escapes

  

  Breath in slowly drinking the seconds as they pass. Breath out even slower releasing those hurts that built up. Grace.

  thespiritofmemories

  February 15, 2023

  forgiveness, Germany, grace, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  cobblestones, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, living, love, loving, loving kindness, mercy, relationships, space, time

• Who Is My Neighbor?

  

  A heavy day in the history of mankind.

  thespiritofmemories

  February 4, 2023

  forgiveness, Germany, grace, journey, life, relationships, religion, Sorrow

  Buchenwald, concentration camp, evil, friends, God, grace, HESED, life, love, mercy, neighbor, relationships, the Good Samaritan

• The Breath of God

  

  I watched my uncle’s life escape his body. I watched as his daughter cried and his sisters sighed at the loss of someone they love deeply. His last breath came and went to the aether. His heart stilled like all the relationships with his children, his sisters, his friends. The pallor colour took over his…

  thespiritofmemories

  December 21, 2022

  forgiveness, grace, Holidays, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, relationships, Sorrow

• Ornaments, those odd orbs permeating life

  

  Ornaments are temporal. Relationships are eternal. Decorations are material. Souls are immortal. Baubles are breakable. People are redeemable.

  thespiritofmemories

  November 30, 2022

  forgiveness, grace, Holidays, home, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships

  Christmas, decorations, God, grace, HESED, kittens, life, love, mercy, ornaments, relationships, temper

• The Offense of Christ

  

  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence. Ephesians 1: 7 – 8 Every morning waiting for the yellow bus to carry me from the apartment complex to the elementary school complex,…

  thespiritofmemories

  November 2, 2021

  forgiveness, grace, journey, life, relationships

  abuse, Christ, forgiveness, God, grace, healing, HESED, life