Julie P. Gordon

| FORGIVENESS |

“It'll clear the bitterness away, it can even set a prisoner free. There is no end to what it's power can do......

I’m 62 years old, I’ve been married for 40 years, I have three beautiful children and soon to be seven grandchildren. I have not always been there for them in the way I really wanted to be. I’ve been searching, struggling and fighting to be free my entire life. Because of the words and actions of my father during a moment of discipline, at the age of 4 or 5 I entered a self imposed prison of silence and took on an identity of anonymity..

I have spent my life trapped behind a decision of a child that was incapable of foreseeing the consequences of that decision. I worn a mask hoping to hide, not always successfully, the emotional turmoil I was experiencing on the inside.

Throughout my life I’ve been pursued by the love of God. I didn’t always recognize it at the time but looking back I see it clearly. I was allowed to make my mistakes and experience my feelings without being indicted or condemned because of them. Step by step, day by day and year after year I was loved into my journey of recovery and forgiveness..

My first name is “Julienne” and its meaning is.......

You are seek freedom and opportunities to enjoy life: to go places and to do things. You are honest, benevolent, brilliant and often inventive, full of high inspirations. You are giving, courageous, determined, strong willed, original and creative. You desire to inspire and lead, especially for a cause. You are honest and fair, because you know that this is the only way to receive justice and honesty from other people. Your personal growth is vital for you. Emergencies may raise your intuitive abilities in order to resolve conflict or situation. You become very creative under pressure, and have quite original ideas to make the best out of it. .

When I applied “forgiveness” where it was needed in my life and removed the mask, I was freed to began walking out my true identity. The identity of the name I was given at birth. I’m no longer silent living in anonymity.