August 9 – Willing to Forgive

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Aug 9, 2026 · 25m · transcript

Pastor Mike builds this one around a single word most of us have said a thousand times without hearing it. In the Lord's Prayer — recited standing, together, in churches and recovery rooms across the Mid-South — sits the line forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. That little word as is asking God to hand us the same terms we've been handing everyone else, which turns out to be a considerable request once you slow down enough to notice it. From there he works the Big Book's blunt verdict that resentment is the number one offender, and the strange math of it…