Healing Broken Relationships

Making amends is a responsibility we must take very seriously if we want to protect our sobriety. While making amends is not necessarily a comfortable process, it is necessary for our growth.  If we can admit what went wrong in our past relationships and admit our part in it, there is a good chance we will choose not to make the same mistakes again.  

 For us to risk taking the first step in making amends with others would be impossible if God had not first demonstrated the way for us. Repeatedly we failed to keep God’s commandments and yet God sent His Son Jesus into the world to atone for our sin so that we could be reconciled to Him. God has completed the work necessary for us to know peace and now He calls us to extend that peace to those in our circle of family and friends.  God didn’t wait for us to come to Him.  He prepared in advance. He reached out to us with this wonderful gift of reconciliation when we didn't dare approach Him. As we begin the work of restoring our troubled relationships, we can reflect on God’s way of offering forgiveness and peace. 

 When we make amends under the guidance of our loving God, everyone is blessed.  Confessing our wrong to someone we have harmed means they will no longer need to carry around the lingering excess baggage of the event.  The resentment we held towards one another will begin to disappear and each of us will experience more freedom in the future.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Thank you for sending Jesus into the world so that my relationship with You could be restored.  Now I ask You to work in my heart so that my relationships with others may also be made right.  Amen

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