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That was BCIN-Before Christ All hate was gone, peace
In Me. came flooding in to fill the
I spent the first half of void. It still left me with a lot
my life carrying such hatred of unanswered questions, but
toward a family member God has graciously provided
that it could have easily put me with several of the
me in prison for life. Until, answers I desperately needed
one day, just like the movie, I to know.
heard a voice rise in me that, Remember Paul over in
simply said; “Let It Go.” the book of Acts. He had just
In that moment I come through a serious storm
realized I had been carrying out on the ocean, he had just
hatred for a man I had not survived a shipwreck, and
seen since I was four years now when it looks like he is
old. I also realized that I only finally out of danger guess
had one line of a story; he what happens?
went to help move a carnival Acts 28: 3-6 “As Paul
and never came back. That’s gathered an armful of sticks
it. Nothing good ever said, and was laying them on the
and nothing bad ever said. fire, a poisonous snake,
I had been married long driven out by the heat, bit
enough to know there are him on the hand. 4The people
two sides to every story, so I of the island saw it hanging
chose to let it go. It was in from his hand and said to
that chain breaking choice, each other, “A murderer, no
not the person I had hated, doubt! Though he escaped the
but ME…IT WAS I WHO sea, justice will not permit
WAS SET FREE. him to live.” 5But Paul shook
off the snake into the fire
and was unharmed. 6The
