FORGIVENESS --
NEVER EASY/ ALWAYS POSSIBLE
Healing Rifts among Families, Friends and God
“I don’t have to tell any of you that forgiveness is tough going, one of the toughest things we attempt in life. Tough, yes, but possible. That is what these stories say to me — forgiveness is possible — possible for everyone. All of us can be forgiven and all of us can forgive; nobody need be left out in either direction.And these two modes of forgiveness invariably go together; you can never really claim one without reaching for the other.”
So writes Storyteller A. Karl Boehmke as he brings to life 40 oft-told stories from the Bible. Here we meet people faced with the nitty-gritty of getting along with each other and with God – sometimes succeeding, sometimes falling short. We face tensions with Cain and Abel, Abraham and Sarah, Joseph, Ruth, Jonah and others. We dream dreams, then face death with John the Baptist, Jesus, Simon Peter, Thomas and others of the Twelve – especially Levi Matthew, a close follower of Jesus, who describes events as if just now underway. It all begins with a present-day honeymooning couple stumbling upon The Inn of Friendships Renewed, where families torn apart by hurts or misunderstandings, and one-time friends who have forgotten how to be friends, have come seeking courage to start talking to one another again.
These ages-old stories have never before been recounted in quite this way.
FORGIVENESS – NEVER EASY/ ALWAYS POSSIBLE
Healing Rifts among Families, Friends and God
