A Message from Pastor Andrea Chaumont

A Message from Pastor Andrea Chaumont

Dear Mt. Baker Park Church,

We have heard the podcasts and read the newspaper articles, forgiveness is good for your health. Forgiveness is associated with lower blood pressure, better sleep, better cardiovascular and immune-health outcomes, but it is so hard to do! We tend to either excuse or rationalize the offense or to hold onto the hurt. As we pray “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” Jesus invites us to a third way. 

The third way is costly, perhaps this is why we are using a financial metaphor here (debts). It does not minimize the offense and it doesn’t involve forgetting the wrong; forgive and forget is not a thing! Instead forgiveness sets us free to live the lives we were meant for as children who are beloved. 

I look forward to being in worship with you this Sunday and continuing our sermon series on the Lord’s Prayer.

With joy,

Andrea