So long 2012! It has been nice knowing you. Thank you for all the hardships, disappointments, heartaches, struggles and challenges that you brought along with you to teach me lessons God wanted me to learn. Thank you for the good times, the protection and prevention of my safety that you also carried in with you. Thank you for preserved friends, family members and bringing me new understandings and a greater degree of wisdom. Thank you for the new babies in my family. Thank you for keeping my family. God you sent all this to me in 2012. I thank you because without it I would not have an abundance of praise to carry into 2013. How could I learn to be even more grateful without being taught about forgiveness and love through penning my (3rd) novel, "NO GRACE WITHOUT MERCY."

We say we forgive, but do we really? If you find yourself saying, "I forgive, but I don't forget...." Guess what. You do not forgive. When God says HE forgives us, he says, "I remember your sins no more." Now that's forgetting.