At the age of fifty-seven I found out what I had felt in my heart for years. My father was not my biological father nor was he to my two older sisters or my two younger brothers.
As a young child I experienced situations that I even know then at an early age where not right. Trying to deal with this hurt is something I had never experienced before and hadn’t until my Dad passed May 7, 2006.
My mother and I had very little contact thru the years. It hurt us all so much how she treated our beloved Dad. I had tried a couple of times to make peace with her but she continued to hurt and do things that where unacceptable considering what she had put my Dad through all of these years.
My pray was that one day she would ask us all for her forgiveness. Before Dad passed mom said had asked Dad’s forgiveness. I was not going to question that, it is between her, Dad and the Lord.
This brings to mind Psalms 86:5 ‘ For You Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercury to all those who call upon You.’
What a blessing and peace HIS word brings to us.
Pray without ceasing is what I did. Knowing that one day the Lord, in HIS wonderful timing would answer my prayer.
On February 16, 2016 at 8:00 PM I entered the hospital room my mother was in. Suffering from severe pneumonia with only few hours to live looked at me and said “Lynne, please forgive me. I have loved you since the day you where born and always will. I love you. My brothers and sisters said it felt like the angels had descended. The Holy Spirit was so present it was that appointed time by God. Praise the Lord I went when I did.
This was something mom needed to do before her passing to get her heart straight with the Lord and her daughter. I feel very privileged that the Lord used me through all of this.
I will always wish we could of made amends long before we did but it had to be in GOD’ S TIMING.
I read her this scripture just before she passed; 2 Timothy 4: 6-8. I will quote verse 6 “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering and the time of my departure is at hand. She then took her last two breathes and her journey was done. Now in the arms of her Maker. Praise the Lord.
So is forgiveness ever to late? No, even if it’s in the last breath.
I hope this might help someone out who thinks that forgiveness will never come. It will in GOD”S TIME. God bless you all.