If you are thirsty, it is not enough to put water in your mouth and not swallow. There comes the moment in which it is necessary to swallow. If you do not take a sip, you will not quench your thirst and the water in your mouth will be totally useless. With deciding it is the same thing.

To decide is a completely personal thing. It you who decides. To decide to love, to decide to pardon, depends on your. In the hour in which one decides the Lord gives to you the grace and the possibility. Grace comes from God, but the decision depends on you. The grace is given for your decision to love and to pardon. You decide and God works. I decide myself to forgive: “Come Holy Spirit rip from inside of my all roots of bitterness, of deception, of sadness of depression and of discouragement. I want to pardon my mother, my father, my brothers and sisters. I want to pardon my parents and my friends. I decide myself to forgive. I decide myself to love. Pour, Lord, over me your Holy Spirit and give the grace of deciding to forgive, to love. I want to forgive the person with whom I married, despite all that he/she did. I want to forgive all the people that now come to my mind. Those that judge me, loving, I want to be what God wants me to be, alone I cannot. . . ‘ I decide to love. I decide to forgive.”

Where there is a will, there is a way. God awaits your decision.

God Bless You,

Monsignor Jonas Abib

translated from Portuguese