"GOD SEES NO SKELETONS IN PETER'S OR YOUR CLOSET OF SHAME"

Of all the diciples, no one loved Jesus more than Peter. And yet Peter hurt Jesus in front of other people. So If you can accept that, like Peter who loved Jesus so much, had hurt Jesus by his own words by denying that he even knew Jesus three times.

Peter felt ashamed and embarrassed, and ran off sulking in his unbearable grief that was too much to bear alone, and Just like Peter, Jesus knows there is no one that is perfect except the Son of God.  

If you can accept that your parent's  are only human with faults too, and are not perfect and therefore will make many mistakes in the words that they say to you and the actions that they will do. You will come from a more peaceful place of greater compassion and a deeper understanding that they are indeed human, and you will understand that there doing the best that they can under the circumstance's. And it is from this place, where your heart is pure, that you will find it easier to forgive them.

 We have to remember that when Peter denied he knew Jesus three times, that he felt so hearbroken that after Jesus was crucified and He rose from the dead on the third day. That Peter did not feel that he was worthy to see Jesus. And Jesus had sent a special invitation to Peter from an angel to let Peter know Jesus had already forgiven him because of His unconditional love for all of us and Jesus life of living in total forgiveness. 

I know you still hurt, but now you will not react from a place of great hurt, because you have learned to not put them on a "pedestal of perfection" where they could do no wrong or that they have perfect love when only Jesus is perfect in His love for us.

Show your parent's that you are growing up, that your muc more mature spiritually and emotionally than last you were last year. That your much wiser, even in these heated, difficult and emotional circumstances. Show them that you have more options and choices available to you so that you can work things out in a more positive way.

You see, as important as to what happens to you in your life, it is far more important to how you react to what happens to you in your life. Which includes in you deciding to argue and debate with your parents, teachers and authority figures that are in your life. Or you can choose to take the high road.

If you do it God's way by choosing compassion and mercy and grace to your parents and other authority figures that are in your life. God will take your life from mediocrity to a much higher level of being blessed.

 Your parent's may not say nothing at the time, but when they have a quiet moment to reflect back on the exchange of words between the both of you. They will know that you were the bigger person, that they had raised you right and they will be proud of you, where it counts, inside their heart where their love for you lives forever.

God believes in you

Reverend Michael Cartwright

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