The Savior will lift the burdens of guilt and shame as you take one more honest look at troubles in your relationships and your part in them. By becoming willing to make amends, you benefit from the peace of knowing that Heavenly Father is pleased with your efforts. This step helps you take the actions that enable the Savior to set you free from your past.
Being willing, you become ready to take step 9. In step 8, you begin an amazing adventure in relating with a new heart to yourself, to others, and to life. You are ready to contribute peace to the world rather than add contention and negative feelings. You are ready to stop minimizing your own behavior or making excuses for it. You are willing to take another thorough inventory—this time of those you have harmed.
Although you may be terrified to consider it, you can become willing to meet the people on your list when the opportunity arises. You can prepare to do all you can to make amends to them. You can live by faith in the Lord, not in fear of what others might do. You can become willing in step 8 to live a life guided by principles rather than by shame or fear.
Many have struggled to have charity and have often fallen woefully short of doing so. The writings of the prophet Mormon clarify what charity is and how to obtain it. Charity is a gift we receive as we learn to follow Jesus Christ and as we love Him with all our hearts, minds, and souls. Filled with this pure love from Him and for Him, we find ourselves able to love others as He has loved us. We become able to forgive the faults of others and to make amends for our mistakes. In preparation for making amends, many of us have found the following exercise helpful.
Think of someone for whom you have had hard feelings. For two weeks, deliberately kneel and pray for him or her each day.
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Keep a record of changes in your thoughts and feelings about that person. The following scriptures and statements from Church leaders may help you as you take step 8. Use these scriptures and questions for meditation, study, and writing. In the first seven steps, you began a process of becoming a peaceable follower of Christ.
When you are at peace with the Lord, you are better prepared to be at peace with others. What other steps do you need to take to be at peace with the people in your life? He that feareth is not made perfect in love. The idea of making amends can be frightening if you focus on doing it perfectly. Even though you may fear that some people will reject your efforts to make peace with them, do not let this fear keep you from putting them on your list and preparing yourself to reach out to them.
Step 8: Seeking Forgiveness
The blessings are far greater than the pain. Study these verses, and write about the blessings of becoming willing to make amends. Without Jesus Christ, we are all perishing, imperfect souls. How does it help you to know that in taking step 8 you are one perishing soul preparing to make amends to another perishing soul?
Step 8: Seeking Forgiveness
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: Forgiving and asking forgiveness for a single wrongdoing is easier than forgiving or asking forgiveness for longstanding situations filled with multiple offenses. Think about relationships, past or present, where multiple offenses have occurred and will need to be forgiven.
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How can you gain strength to forgive and seek forgiveness? How is Jesus Christ the greatest example of the ability to forgive? Consider His willingness to help you forgive others. Jesus taught that to fail to forgive others is a greater sin than the original trespass or offense. The Prophet Joseph Smith described how kindness can lead to repentance and forgiveness. Ponder and write about your willingness to be the one who breaks the cycle of bitterness and offense. Think about people who have shown kindness and love to you.
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Carey Kerr BS Editor. She calls it the Crime Scene. If you have pain, fear and anger bottled up inside you need to release it! She has included in her book each step you will need while there. You cannot move forward unless you go back, and get it right in your mind. That is where the battle is. Where the battle is, is where the pain started, and where the pain stops! Josephine mentions that no matter how painful, you must go back! Josephine prays with her readers all the way!
She believes if you are carrying a heavy load to seek help, and this six-step guide contained in her book, with help of God, is what you need. It is necessary if you want closure need from divorce, abuse, betrayal, rejection, loss, and even the effects of living without your biological mother or father.
If a person is deceased, she shows you can forgive. In other words, people who hide pain bottles it up, leave it un-addressed, causes it to explode, and blames you. She clarifies how we put ourselves in bondage by accepting their blame. Josephine states that forgiveness breaks those chains. Even when the pain of life chokes you, and knocks, you down find a way to keep going.
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Included in her book is a helpful l forgiveness session, personal testimonies, as well as, testimonies of her own to help you to overcome what you must let go! Kindle Edition , 35 pages. Published December 10th by Josephine D. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.