Pain; that agonizing and uncomfortable feeling you get when something is interrupted or out of place. Like your arm twisted behind your back, like the feeling of a clear paper cut on a delicate finger, or punch straight to the face. Worse still, the emotional and mental pain of loss or a broken relationship. That is hard very hard.

How about the pains that seem to go on forever, like, dealing with a chronic sickness, a family member addicted to drugs, a runaway daughter or sibling, or a family torn apart.  None of these in themselves are good. 

We all agree pain hurts, it throbs the heart with displeasure, yet if we listen to it, it just might tell us what needs to be put right. It may reveal what we’re doing wrong, and give us a

Our lives and interactions are transactions in value, and we are by nature givers (creditors), takers, and offenders (debtors).

In Matthew 6:12, Jesus, while teaching on prayer said; ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Here, Jesus identifies forgiveness as something of value like money. Something that can be exchanged or traded, given or withheld. 

The Lord encourages us to ask the father to forgive our debts - our offenses to Him. Then, indicating debt owed to one another, he uses the same analogy, He says ‘as we forgive our debtors,’ showing that we also should forgive that which is owed to us.

Therefore, IF WE OWE one another forgiveness, that must mean that there exist a spiritual law in which we were ORIGINALLY REQUIRED to extend good