Our need for God and for one another
Conducting a workshop for a statewide gathering of Ph.D.s in psychology, my colleague and I asked the group, "How many of you have ever said to your patients, 'You've got to forgive yourself?' " Quite a few hands in the crowd went up. The next question was, "How many of you have had success with that approach?" Not a single hand was raised.
We talked together for quite some time about that lack of success and pondered the reasons. Our lessons for the day might help us explain why the approach meets with so little success.
Genesis 50:15-21