When your dad, the one who should be your protector, becomes your perpetrator, many layers are added to grief. Forgiveness is messy but necessary for freedom from ongoing destruction. And forgiveness is a choice. Understanding the Gospel and the forgiveness offered to each one of us is the model we must follow.

In part two of Whitney’s story, she poignantly discusses: 

• Acknowledging the depth an offense that requires forgiveness 
• Practical steps of forgiving 
• What it looks like to wrestle to a place of rest
• Accepting God’s sovereignty, knowing that He could have stopped or kept us from circumstances of suffering

Other resources:

From Ashes to Beauty Episode 121 with Whitney Van Matre Part 1

Forgiving What You Can’t Forget by Lysa TerKeurst 

Dark Clouds Deep Mercy by Mark Vroegop

Whitney Van Matre is a wife, and mother, and is actively involved in her church. She enjoys encouraging women who are walking through loss, infertility, and adoption. Whitney’s life is a story of how God turns ashes into beauty through full surrender.

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