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It’s easy to say, not so easy to do; this forgiveness business. If you’re a person who can forgive someone you feel has wronged you right away I take my hat off to you! But if you are like me, struggling to forgive someone for a wrong they have done you then allow me to assure you you are NOT alone. Some of the unforgiveness is completely understandable in our eyes. Someone killed your son/daughter, relative; whomever and we want to hate that person with a passion. Until that hate is all we can see. We think of that “bad” person and wish them dead. Wish they die a slow painful death. We HATE them a whole lot more than we could ever possible love them.

But there IS that clause. Forgive US, as WE forgive others.

I am in no way condemning you for your feelings! Please do not receive condemnation though the above statement if you are holding onto unforgiveness for anything. God does not condemn, he lifts us up and wants to see us whole. It’s satin who wants us to be bound up in a bunch of garbage that will keep us from the freedom in Christ God has for each and every one of us.

About eight years ago my husband’s family fired him from their place of business. Was it because he was late for work all the time? Lazy? Countless other reasons you might come up with yet probably won’t hit upon it. No. They fired him because he’d been arrested at the Mall of America for nudity.

I wasn’t happy about that myself because it was the second time in less than two years my husband was arrested for the exact same thing.

Remember I told you my husband was a nudist? I’m slowly beginning to understand this fetish, and I use that word from an American point of view, yet not all American’s share it. There are nudists out there. Some have the freedom of having a beach to go to but here, in North Dakota there isn’t a place.

I also want to explain my husband was not IN the Mall of America. He’d driven up the parking ramp and had parked in an area he considered secluded. Remember, HE considered it secluded. His mentality of, “If I can’t see anyone, they can’t see me,” gets him in trouble every time! He didn’t consider the security cameras. But he wasn’t prancing around in the nude either. He’d stayed in his car, finish lunch, slipped on a pair of sun through shorts—by the way, sun through sorts are SEE through shorts but hubby doesn’t get that concept either. When he looks down at himself he sees the shorts. When he steps out of the vehicle moves to the ledge and looks over the side of the parking ramp with the sun at his back anyone, and that includes the security team watching the camera sees all his glory.

Security arrested him. During a search of his car they discovered a gun, which added to the charges.