HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE!
Isn't it wonderful to see all the signs of Spring popping out all over? It is so encouraging after a long, very cold winter, and I for one am enjoying all the sights, sounds and smells of Spring. Have been very busy lately, and THAT is a good thing....I think;-) Not enough hours in the day, with spring planting, spring cleaning, and work that I have been doing on my book's platform. Yes, I'm still out there doing everything I can.
Recently I was contacted by Monty Meyer of Take12Radio out of Albany, OR, to do a radio interview. The broadcast aired last Saturday the 6th, and was a really pleasant experience. Monty makes all of his guests feel very welcome and comfortable, and before I knew it, the hour was up. I had thought I would not have enough to say, but as my Son, Scott, said, "Mom, you never run out of things to say." Monty had a lot of good questions for me, as well as personal input with a wealth of knowledge, and made the whole interview experience very interesting. Thanks again Monty for the opportunity, I really appreciate it. For any of you who missed the interview and would like to listen to it or refer it to someone you know who needs to heal their scars from abuse, you can still find it. Go to www.Take12Radio.com, and go to their ARCHIVES...and click on FRIDAY INTERVIEWS. There you will find mine that was on Friday, April 5th, spotlighting my book "Father, Forgive My Father".
Now, my next step is to further shine the spotlight on this month of April which is "National Child Abuse Prevention Month". In doing that, I have scheduled an Open House for a book reading at our local library. For any of you in the Spokane area, please feel free to attend, and please bring a friend; especially if you know they have been abused and need help to heal. See the notice below:
COME & MEET THE AUTHOR at an Open House @ the Airway Heights Library
ADDRESS: 1213 S. Lundstrom, Airway Heights, WA 99001
DATE: April 25th, from 2-4 p.m. "Epidemic of Sexual Child Abuse To Be Revealed"
Don't miss this timely and informative book reading and signing in recognition of April, "National Child Abuse Prevention Month"
You
will also be able to meet the author of the book's Foreword, Dana
Gamble. We're looking forward to meeting you and hope you will join us
and bring a friend. This promises to be an interesting &
informative time of sharing. Coffee and cookies will be served.
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In the meantime I have been really busy getting my brochures, business cards and bookmarks redone and reprinted. My neighbor has offered to introduce me over at our airbase across the street, so I'm sure that is opening a huge door...lots of need in the military unfortunately. Also have been in contact with people out of state who have asked to handle my books in their book stores, and have asked me to give book readings or my workshop. I see a trip to Alaska in my near future to achieve these goals. Of course I never mind that, because I can see my son and his family...which are most of my grandchildren and now my GREATS...8 of them up there;-)
So, that's how my Spring is going so far...not to mention the rose garden that I have scheduled for replanting...someday it will be pretty again. Plans are to move to our summer ranch home May 15th, and then begins our summer gardening. This year I've invited our Spokane Compass Club Gardening Group to visit for a tour of our garden and a patio lunch...they have assured me that it will be potluck, so I guess I will get lots of help with that. Looking forward to a very exciting Spring and Summer. God is moving, and moving fast...and I'm just along for the ride...to go where He directs. Thank you for your love and prayers, and please be praying that He continues to open doors where this message is needed. I also have a new personal URL web site for noting scheduled events and easy book purchase at www.fffpublishinghelps.com. God is good...God bless you all. Let me hear from you!
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
RADIO INTERVIEW WITH TAKE12RADIO
This will just be a short blog today to let you know of my radio interview tomorrow (taping tomorrow; actual broadcast goes live on Saturday). I will be sharing with the listeners how to recognize the signs of abuse; then how to help victims of child abuse during and after the abuse, and how to lead them through the healing process. I will also share why and how I got started writing my book and where you can find it at my book distributors.
To hear the broadcast go to www.talk12radio.com and click on Saturday (for the Friday interviews). Then look for my name, Sandra Lee interview April 5th. Hope you will tune in. If you miss it and want to watch it later, it will be there in the archives forever...so please pass on the information. We need to do all we can to help these victims who are still waiting for their healing touch.
Have a wonderful day, and REMEMBER....
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
To hear the broadcast go to www.talk12radio.com and click on Saturday (for the Friday interviews). Then look for my name, Sandra Lee interview April 5th. Hope you will tune in. If you miss it and want to watch it later, it will be there in the archives forever...so please pass on the information. We need to do all we can to help these victims who are still waiting for their healing touch.
Have a wonderful day, and REMEMBER....
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
Happy Spring Time...April is "National Child Abuse Prevention Month"
Hello Everyone and Happy Spring!
I'm back! The past few years have been so busy with my mother's care that I had to back out of a lot of my correspondence, especially on my websites. She came to live with us over 2 years ago, and we were her sole caregivers in our home. I certainly am thankful that we had that time with her, and am thankful that her passing was easy. She was plagued with pneumonia all summer last year, and after being MedStar lifeflighted from our ranch, spent 3 stays in the hospital, and then went to a nursing home here in Spokane. She seemed to rally for awhile, but could not shake the pneumonia, and she finally gave up after her 95th birthday on July 29th. We had a little party for her there in the nursing home, and afterwards one of the nurses asked her, "Lois, since you've reached 95 now, are you going to shoot for 100?" She said, "No, I don't think so, I'm kinda tired." Then on August 26th, after saying goodbye to her children and Grandchildren on the phone, she slipped quietly away into the arms of our Lord. I could not have wished for anything differently, because she had had a good, full life, and now she is pain free and flying with the angels.
Now, I am plunging in with both feet...and hands, and doing the work I know I'm intended to do. My greatest desire, as you all know, is to see people set free from the bondage of abuse...whether it be immediate, or scars from past abuse. The current statistics have only continued to rise through the past few years, and abuse of children in this country is an EPIDEMIC....it has to STOP!
To further that goal, I am very happy to report that I was recently contacted by Monty Dale Meyer of Talk12Radio Station out of Oregon, to do an interview tomorrow (Friday, April 5th). This interview will be over Internet Radio and will be available on Saturday at www.Talk12Radio.com; then just click on SATURDAY for the Friday Interviews. They archive these interviews, so they will be available forever for those of you who want to listen and refer on to your friends. I would really appreciate that, too, as the whole purpose is to reach as many people as we can, in the hopes of reaching many victims of abuse who need healing. PLEASE partner with me in passing this on; it is so important. It is also so timely, since this is "National Child Abuse Prevention Month", and we need to do all we can to get the word out there. Those victims are out there, and they are waiting for our help.
Thanks everyone for hanging in there with me and checking back. Hope you all had a wonderful Easter and are enjoying Spring...I am! Remember to listen in to the broadcast interview and let me know what you think...thanks again.
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
I'm back! The past few years have been so busy with my mother's care that I had to back out of a lot of my correspondence, especially on my websites. She came to live with us over 2 years ago, and we were her sole caregivers in our home. I certainly am thankful that we had that time with her, and am thankful that her passing was easy. She was plagued with pneumonia all summer last year, and after being MedStar lifeflighted from our ranch, spent 3 stays in the hospital, and then went to a nursing home here in Spokane. She seemed to rally for awhile, but could not shake the pneumonia, and she finally gave up after her 95th birthday on July 29th. We had a little party for her there in the nursing home, and afterwards one of the nurses asked her, "Lois, since you've reached 95 now, are you going to shoot for 100?" She said, "No, I don't think so, I'm kinda tired." Then on August 26th, after saying goodbye to her children and Grandchildren on the phone, she slipped quietly away into the arms of our Lord. I could not have wished for anything differently, because she had had a good, full life, and now she is pain free and flying with the angels.
Now, I am plunging in with both feet...and hands, and doing the work I know I'm intended to do. My greatest desire, as you all know, is to see people set free from the bondage of abuse...whether it be immediate, or scars from past abuse. The current statistics have only continued to rise through the past few years, and abuse of children in this country is an EPIDEMIC....it has to STOP!
To further that goal, I am very happy to report that I was recently contacted by Monty Dale Meyer of Talk12Radio Station out of Oregon, to do an interview tomorrow (Friday, April 5th). This interview will be over Internet Radio and will be available on Saturday at www.Talk12Radio.com; then just click on SATURDAY for the Friday Interviews. They archive these interviews, so they will be available forever for those of you who want to listen and refer on to your friends. I would really appreciate that, too, as the whole purpose is to reach as many people as we can, in the hopes of reaching many victims of abuse who need healing. PLEASE partner with me in passing this on; it is so important. It is also so timely, since this is "National Child Abuse Prevention Month", and we need to do all we can to get the word out there. Those victims are out there, and they are waiting for our help.
Thanks everyone for hanging in there with me and checking back. Hope you all had a wonderful Easter and are enjoying Spring...I am! Remember to listen in to the broadcast interview and let me know what you think...thanks again.
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
APRIL IS NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
Since April is National Child Abuse Month, I wanted to remind all of you that we need to be doing everything possible to help the many victims of child abuse. Because of my background I am particularly concerned about the statistics of sexual child abuse that continue to grow in our
country...IT IS NOW AN EPIDEMIC!
When I wrote my book, "Father, Forgive My Father" the statistics were high, but lower than today. Now we can safely say that 1/2 of our population has experienced some kind of child abuse, and in the majority of these cases the child has been sexually abused. Many of our states across the country have tightened their child abuse laws, making the penalties much more harsh. This is as it should be...after all, the abuser has robbed this child of his/her innocence and altered the path of the victim's entire life. When we were in the Caribbean a few years ago, I did a little survey of some of the islanders we encountered. I asked them, "Do you have much sexual child abuse here?". Almost all of them said the same thing: "No, we don't have problem...if you touch the child, you do life in prison." No THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT...you're DONE after one abuse. If we had tougher laws like that, there would be no abuse, and our society wouldn't be sick and our prisons wouldn't be filled with victims of sexual abuse who went on to abuse others. In honor of National Child Abuse Month, I wanted to re-post a blog I posted on 2/26/07...please read on.
ADVICE TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
When I was at a recent conference, on one of the breaks, I had a profound thought (one of my few, and it doesn't happen very often...so when it does, I think, "It must be God".) Well, the word ACT came to mind, and I started thinking of words that had significance to healing from
sexual abuse, and this is what I came up with. Break down the word ACT:"A" stands for "acknowledge" that you have been a victim of abuse, and are not at fault; "C" stands for "confront" your abuser or those responsible for your abuse. Some victims say, "I can't confront the abuser; he/she is dead. Well, YES you CAN, even if they are deceased. Just visually place them in a chair in front of you and go through the confrontation as if they were sitting there. Tell them how it made you
feel, how you suffered, and, even though you will NEVER forget the deed, you have FORGIVEN them...because that's what's important to your healing. If the abuser is still alive, you need to prayerfully seek God's timing in confronting he/she. You need to get it out, and they need to accept responsibility for what they did. The "T" stands for TALK ABOUT IT; healing begins with getting it out in the open and talking about it, whether it be to your friends, family, counselor or pastor, you NEED to talk about it. The more you do, the less painful it is, and you can then get past it and be healed. Praise our wonderful,understanding and healing God. Our God can do ALL things! And WE can do all things through Christ who strengthens us...AMEN!
In closing this blog, I would like to ask all of you to help, by educating yourselves to the many signs of child abuse. My book has a whole section on how to recognize these signs, and what to do if you expect that someone has been abused. This child needs your help, and will forever be grateful for your helping hand. And, when it comes time for you to do something toward toughening our laws, please help by making your voice heard. Let people know how you feel about those who rob children of their childhood and innocence. This subject is no longer "taboo" in our society, and we need to come out of the dark ages and help the abused. Please do your part by voicing your support of child abuse prevention. Thanks for anything you can do.
and REMEMBER...
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
country...IT IS NOW AN EPIDEMIC!
When I wrote my book, "Father, Forgive My Father" the statistics were high, but lower than today. Now we can safely say that 1/2 of our population has experienced some kind of child abuse, and in the majority of these cases the child has been sexually abused. Many of our states across the country have tightened their child abuse laws, making the penalties much more harsh. This is as it should be...after all, the abuser has robbed this child of his/her innocence and altered the path of the victim's entire life. When we were in the Caribbean a few years ago, I did a little survey of some of the islanders we encountered. I asked them, "Do you have much sexual child abuse here?". Almost all of them said the same thing: "No, we don't have problem...if you touch the child, you do life in prison." No THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT...you're DONE after one abuse. If we had tougher laws like that, there would be no abuse, and our society wouldn't be sick and our prisons wouldn't be filled with victims of sexual abuse who went on to abuse others. In honor of National Child Abuse Month, I wanted to re-post a blog I posted on 2/26/07...please read on.
ADVICE TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
When I was at a recent conference, on one of the breaks, I had a profound thought (one of my few, and it doesn't happen very often...so when it does, I think, "It must be God".) Well, the word ACT came to mind, and I started thinking of words that had significance to healing from
sexual abuse, and this is what I came up with. Break down the word ACT:"A" stands for "acknowledge" that you have been a victim of abuse, and are not at fault; "C" stands for "confront" your abuser or those responsible for your abuse. Some victims say, "I can't confront the abuser; he/she is dead. Well, YES you CAN, even if they are deceased. Just visually place them in a chair in front of you and go through the confrontation as if they were sitting there. Tell them how it made you
feel, how you suffered, and, even though you will NEVER forget the deed, you have FORGIVEN them...because that's what's important to your healing. If the abuser is still alive, you need to prayerfully seek God's timing in confronting he/she. You need to get it out, and they need to accept responsibility for what they did. The "T" stands for TALK ABOUT IT; healing begins with getting it out in the open and talking about it, whether it be to your friends, family, counselor or pastor, you NEED to talk about it. The more you do, the less painful it is, and you can then get past it and be healed. Praise our wonderful,understanding and healing God. Our God can do ALL things! And WE can do all things through Christ who strengthens us...AMEN!
In closing this blog, I would like to ask all of you to help, by educating yourselves to the many signs of child abuse. My book has a whole section on how to recognize these signs, and what to do if you expect that someone has been abused. This child needs your help, and will forever be grateful for your helping hand. And, when it comes time for you to do something toward toughening our laws, please help by making your voice heard. Let people know how you feel about those who rob children of their childhood and innocence. This subject is no longer "taboo" in our society, and we need to come out of the dark ages and help the abused. Please do your part by voicing your support of child abuse prevention. Thanks for anything you can do.
and REMEMBER...
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
Saturday, December 3, 2011
A Golden Opportunity...not to be missed!
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| Mom & I at a Christmas Party in 2010 |
We have this new house (new to us) that we bought in 2007 for our later years of retirement. Well, "hello"...here we are in our "later years of retirement"; where did all the time go?Thursday, June 16, 2011
Reposting and Important Blog
Good Morning everyone,
Just wanted to share a friend's blog that I think is important to all of us. Thanks, LaJoyce for sharing your experiences and advice. You have helped ALL of us.
Posted by LaJoyce on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 8:16am Hello to all my followers! I was amazed at all the hits my last blog received and want to ask if it has helped you in your walk on this earth? My aim is to help those folks that are looking for a way that their lives will have peace. We all know peace comes through our belief in God, but sometimes we can have a hard time knowing how to accept it.
Yesterday at work I had an experience that jolted my peace. I watched the nurses calmly minister their craft to an individual that was loud, highly excited and full of expletives. This went on for hours before we could seek the proper attention that was needed. I admired those nurses for how they handled something that I felt I more than likely could not have handled very well. Probably handle, but not with confidence. I remember standing by the wall of windows watching this patient struggle with trying to control the situation.The scenario gave me thoughts of anger, hostility and a desire to go into the bed and spank this chronological mature individual! I wondered why I felt so uncomfortable when placed in this sudden environment. God spoke directly to me after I voiced how I felt to a christian nurse. I needed more healing in that area! That scenario I witnessed was a childhood common. It still lingered when I thought it was conquered.
Many times, something we were reared into, takes a lifetime of deliverance. We learn over a period of time how to handle ourselves by keeping ourselves safe in environments that shield us from those outbreaks, but when they surface again, old feelings return.
We all don't like those feelings and seek for guidance, however going to God in prayer and asking Him to help was the answer. I couldn't go back and relive my childhood and make everyone do what I thought they should do to make my life better. The only way to return to a peaceful life is to forgive those that have hurt me. Mark 11:24,25. We hate those feelings, because when we feel like that we stay stuck in our life. We cannot move forward, harbor nasty feelings about everything and everybody who dares come against us. We look slantingly at all actions we view. Our lives are based on what we learned in our childhood. Everyone has something that has negatively affected them and is carried into their adulthood. Some folks handle their situations differently and we all strive to better ourselves. May I say that trusting in God is the only way to help ourselves. The more knowledge we have of His word to guide us will lead us forward, but perfection only comes the day we go home to be with Jesus. So to recognize this uncomfortable situation I faced, I thank God for His guidance to attain more trust in Him.
Thanks for listening. You are a blessed crowd of wonderful God fearing individuals that God loves more than you can ever fathom.
LaJoyce
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
Just wanted to share a friend's blog that I think is important to all of us. Thanks, LaJoyce for sharing your experiences and advice. You have helped ALL of us.
Posted by LaJoyce on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 8:16am Hello to all my followers! I was amazed at all the hits my last blog received and want to ask if it has helped you in your walk on this earth? My aim is to help those folks that are looking for a way that their lives will have peace. We all know peace comes through our belief in God, but sometimes we can have a hard time knowing how to accept it.
Yesterday at work I had an experience that jolted my peace. I watched the nurses calmly minister their craft to an individual that was loud, highly excited and full of expletives. This went on for hours before we could seek the proper attention that was needed. I admired those nurses for how they handled something that I felt I more than likely could not have handled very well. Probably handle, but not with confidence. I remember standing by the wall of windows watching this patient struggle with trying to control the situation.The scenario gave me thoughts of anger, hostility and a desire to go into the bed and spank this chronological mature individual! I wondered why I felt so uncomfortable when placed in this sudden environment. God spoke directly to me after I voiced how I felt to a christian nurse. I needed more healing in that area! That scenario I witnessed was a childhood common. It still lingered when I thought it was conquered.
Many times, something we were reared into, takes a lifetime of deliverance. We learn over a period of time how to handle ourselves by keeping ourselves safe in environments that shield us from those outbreaks, but when they surface again, old feelings return.
We all don't like those feelings and seek for guidance, however going to God in prayer and asking Him to help was the answer. I couldn't go back and relive my childhood and make everyone do what I thought they should do to make my life better. The only way to return to a peaceful life is to forgive those that have hurt me. Mark 11:24,25. We hate those feelings, because when we feel like that we stay stuck in our life. We cannot move forward, harbor nasty feelings about everything and everybody who dares come against us. We look slantingly at all actions we view. Our lives are based on what we learned in our childhood. Everyone has something that has negatively affected them and is carried into their adulthood. Some folks handle their situations differently and we all strive to better ourselves. May I say that trusting in God is the only way to help ourselves. The more knowledge we have of His word to guide us will lead us forward, but perfection only comes the day we go home to be with Jesus. So to recognize this uncomfortable situation I faced, I thank God for His guidance to attain more trust in Him.
Thanks for listening. You are a blessed crowd of wonderful God fearing individuals that God loves more than you can ever fathom.
LaJoyce
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Move to the Eastside
Hi Everyone,
I know, I know...I've been really absent on here lately, but it's due to our HUGE move clear across the state so that we can be closer to the ranch. We started packing in March & making trips across the state to transport "stuff", and finally made the big trek permanently on April 30th. Since that time we've only had a couple of work days at the new place to put things in order...I need lots more time and sometimes wish I could clone myself:-)
Many of you probably do not know that my stepdad passed away in March, just a week and a half before his 102nd birthday. He passed very quickly and quietly and his daughter and family got a chance to say their good byes and rub his legs just that morning. So he could not have asked for a more peaceful passage to go to his heavenly Father. He is there now, and we are taking care of his "bride", my Mom. She moved with us of course, and is now enjoying living here at the ranch with us for the summer. She watches each day for that illusive moose that never seems to appear for her to see, but we have seen many times just sauntering across our field below the house, or standing in our lakes. We have placed a salt block now out in the field, so hopefully, she will see one soon.
After all the cool weather, we finally have sunshine today, after another nice rain, thunder and lightning last night. We managed to plant our garden (part of it) a couple weeks ago, and now have corn, green beans and peas coming up. I need to get out there and plant the rest, as Mom wants MORE pickled beets this summer. Last year we had a "first year garden" and had a bumper crop of lettuce, carrots, radishes, onions, beets, peas and beans...and some cucumbers and zuchinni. It has been so cool and rainy this spring that I couldn't get the rest of that planted yet.
This weekend our good friends (four couples) from Oregon have been here for their annual visit, fishing, atving, visiting, resting, reading, etc. We all had a drive over to the new place yesterday and had our first company dinner at patio tables lined up in the dining room. Was so much fun and is so good to see all our friends. Some of them left this morning, but 2 couples are still down at the lake house and will bring US dinner tonight (they think I've been cooking enough). This time of sharing with friends each year is a special time for us, and we look forward to it so much each year. They even managed to catch some fish the other day and we had them for breakfast yesterday...YUM...fresh pan fried trout. This is a picture of the ranch house on the lake as it appeared about a month ago when we still had snow and ice on the lake. It's all gone now, and we have turtles and fish swimming around. Still waiting for baby duckies, though...we keep watching. Well, I'll post more pictures later after I get them downloaded, but for now, hope you're all having a wonderful Spring.
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
I know, I know...I've been really absent on here lately, but it's due to our HUGE move clear across the state so that we can be closer to the ranch. We started packing in March & making trips across the state to transport "stuff", and finally made the big trek permanently on April 30th. Since that time we've only had a couple of work days at the new place to put things in order...I need lots more time and sometimes wish I could clone myself:-)
Many of you probably do not know that my stepdad passed away in March, just a week and a half before his 102nd birthday. He passed very quickly and quietly and his daughter and family got a chance to say their good byes and rub his legs just that morning. So he could not have asked for a more peaceful passage to go to his heavenly Father. He is there now, and we are taking care of his "bride", my Mom. She moved with us of course, and is now enjoying living here at the ranch with us for the summer. She watches each day for that illusive moose that never seems to appear for her to see, but we have seen many times just sauntering across our field below the house, or standing in our lakes. We have placed a salt block now out in the field, so hopefully, she will see one soon.
After all the cool weather, we finally have sunshine today, after another nice rain, thunder and lightning last night. We managed to plant our garden (part of it) a couple weeks ago, and now have corn, green beans and peas coming up. I need to get out there and plant the rest, as Mom wants MORE pickled beets this summer. Last year we had a "first year garden" and had a bumper crop of lettuce, carrots, radishes, onions, beets, peas and beans...and some cucumbers and zuchinni. It has been so cool and rainy this spring that I couldn't get the rest of that planted yet.
This weekend our good friends (four couples) from Oregon have been here for their annual visit, fishing, atving, visiting, resting, reading, etc. We all had a drive over to the new place yesterday and had our first company dinner at patio tables lined up in the dining room. Was so much fun and is so good to see all our friends. Some of them left this morning, but 2 couples are still down at the lake house and will bring US dinner tonight (they think I've been cooking enough). This time of sharing with friends each year is a special time for us, and we look forward to it so much each year. They even managed to catch some fish the other day and we had them for breakfast yesterday...YUM...fresh pan fried trout. This is a picture of the ranch house on the lake as it appeared about a month ago when we still had snow and ice on the lake. It's all gone now, and we have turtles and fish swimming around. Still waiting for baby duckies, though...we keep watching. Well, I'll post more pictures later after I get them downloaded, but for now, hope you're all having a wonderful Spring.
"The only people who are truly free are the ones who walk in a spirit of continual forgiveness."
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