Undoing Damage

"When your children are young, keep short accounts. Say you are sorry. You are going to make mistakes with your children. It happens. Sometimes, we lose tempers. Sometimes, we make bad decisions. Sometimes, we need to apologize. Don't be afraid. Let them see your humility. Let them experience offering forgiveness. It is good for them as it is for us to practice Colossians 3:13, 
"Forgive as the Lord forgave you". 
- You are Captivating, Celebrating a Mother's Heart by Stasi Eldredge

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
-Reinhold Niebuhr


"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." - Bryant H. McGill


"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life." 
- George MacDonald


"We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven." - Martha Kilpatrick

Do you freely and easily forgive others? Why or why not?


Is it a struggle for you to ask your children for forgiveness?


What steps can you take to be a good example to your children as you live out Colossians 3:13?