This Week's Challenge

For this week's challenge (I'm going to try to make this a weekly thing), I invite you all to think of a relationship you have that is broken. Arguments are inevitable in any close relationship and, unfortunately, some of them are strong enough to end the relationship, either immediately or by relegating it so far behind others that it just fades away. We all have some relationship that is either broken or far from where we'd like it to be, and it's probably a combination of our fault and theirs.

So the challenge is to extend the olive branch this week. Think honestly about the relationship and apologize for what you have done wrong. Don't demand an apology from the other person as an exchange. If the door opens for you to say what you feel they've done, you can use that opportunity and hopefully get an apology, but remember that God says we are to forgive others, not forgive them only if they forgive us, too.

As another part of this weekly thing, please post back (if you feel comfortable doing so) a brief synopsis of what happened. We don't need to know details of what went wrong; this is just a place to report good news or prayer requests.