My friend should practice what he preaches.

A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine lost his wife of 25+ years to a brain tumor. He took her death real hard and for a while he was having a difficult time coping with her loss which I totally understand. I’m not religious at all, but I really feel his faith in God and the support he got from his church members helped him pull through such a difficult time. Anyway, he met a woman from another church that he has been dating for two months and for the first time since his wife passed he seemed very happy and there was even talk about getting serious until she opened up about her past. She’s a recovering drug addict (10 years sober) and in her younger days (she’s 56), she was a stripper for a short time.

She came clean because she wanted a serious relationship with him and she also wanted to serve God with him in the church he attends, but he couldn’t deal with her past and he refuses to talk to her now. He came over to my house and told me about the situation and wanted to know my opinion about it. I told him straight up, if God forgave her, why couldn’t he? He’s always going on and on about forgiveness, but yet he’s contradicting his own belief. We’ve all done things in our lives that we’ve not proud of, but does that disqualify us of forgiveness? Don’t preach forgiveness if you’re not willing to forgive. Rant over with.