Faithbase

Hi everyone, I'm back. My name is Tonya Lee Carey with Faith Base and I'm the founder of God's Freedom Fighters ministry and I want to open up with a quote that grief is not a sign of weakness it is the price of love and that is the continuation of what I'm sharing about restoration and being healed through the process of grief. As you all know I lost my son in April 2022 or this is the first time for someone and so I'll be sharing this for the rest of my life. This is part of my testimony which my son will forever be in my heart and his life is even more prolific now than even when he was alive but I'm thankful for the memories. I mean the memories are pure treasure. They said that children are a gift, God said they are a reward, a blessing but their memories are to be treasured. Today I just want to share real quick about dealing with forgiving yourself and and I have here Ephesians 4.32 it goes into being kind and compassionate and forgiving one another. Well first we have to be kind to ourselves first. We have to be compassionate and loving to ourselves first and the only way we're gonna be able to do that especially going through this process of losing someone that we dearly love and we extremely miss is that we got to first receive it and I've shared that before in regards to receiving that love from the love of God and receiving his forgiveness all we have to do is ask and that forgiveness is ongoing you know once we get through the pointing the fingers and fault-finding and blaming anybody or just being in denial we the reality is for us to grow mature we have to be kind to ourselves be compassionate and loving to ourselves and we got to forgive ourselves in this ongoing it's continuation we just need it on a regular basis weekly maybe daily for many of you guys but we need it in that process of needing love and receiving love from the father we have to give it on a regular basis we have to ask for forgiveness on a regular basis that's just what time it is that's gonna help grow us up in this process especially through grief as I shared earlier that grief is not a weakness it's the price of love and our loved ones will forever be blessings to us but their memories are to be treasured I love you that's the end and there's nothing you can do about it until next time peace