Mother’s Day Edition: Might Forgiveness Be A Good Gift? (2014 Posting)

Even the best relationships between mothers and their children have moments of “I wish I’d said” or “I wish I hadn’t done.” Those moments are on both the parental and the child side of the relationship.

One of the biggest hurdles in the grief process is unforgiveness. The unforgiveness could be something you hold against your mother, something for which you feel you didn’t receive her forgiveness, or forgiveness you are withholding from yourself. Might this Mother’s Day be a good day to give the gift of forgiveness?