{"id":12806,"date":"2025-07-16T05:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12806"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:08:54","slug":"offer-your-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/offer-your-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Offer Your Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tan-White-Modern-Ocean-Photo-Summer-Memories-Quote-Facebook-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tan-White-Modern-Ocean-Photo-Summer-Memories-Quote-Facebook-Post.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tan-White-Modern-Ocean-Photo-Summer-Memories-Quote-Facebook-Post-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tan-White-Modern-Ocean-Photo-Summer-Memories-Quote-Facebook-Post-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about wrong or right,\u201d my pastor told me years ago.\u00a0 Working through a conflict, I could only see my position from my moralistic viewpoint, which I deemed right.\u00a0 For years, I didn\u2019t understand what the pastor meant by those words.\u00a0 But now I do, reconciliation matters more than right or wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus came to Earth to restore our broken relationship with the Father, reconciling us to Him.\u00a0 Sin separates us from God, but Christ reconnected us.\u00a0 Confessing our mistakes with a repentant heart and placing our faith in the Savior restores our relationship with the Creator, enabling us to offer the same grace we received to those in our lives who need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking moral stands can destroy relationships.\u00a0 Thinking we have all the answers and people must do things our way hurts everyone.\u00a0 God sits on the throne, not us.\u00a0 We only see in part; the Lord sees the whole picture.\u00a0 Submitting to the Savior means acknowledging we don\u2019t know everything, and shouldn\u2019t judge others from our partial perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the Lord wants us to offer grace to those who hurt us, accepting their freedom to live as they choose, and reconciling broken relationships. Agreeing to disagree enables us to coexist harmoniously with others and honor God.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Journal Question:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">When have you hurt a relationship because you pushed your agenda on someone else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Random Act of Kindness:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What can you do today to reconcile a broken relationship?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. \u201cIt\u2019s not about wrong or right,\u201d my pastor told me years ago.\u00a0 Working through a conflict, I could only see my position from my moralistic viewpoint, which I deemed right.\u00a0 For years, I didn\u2019t understand what the pastor meant by those words.\u00a0 But now I do, reconciliation matters more than right or wrong.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/offer-your-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Offer Your Gift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12806\/revisions\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}