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I have a question about stealing. As a child I stole several times from classmates. I have apologized to a few of the people I stole from, and I am still in the process of apologizing. I have found it amazing and humbling that people can forgive about stealing and not be mad at me. I hope that God is the same. But my question is that on two different situations I stole a pencil sharpener from my school's store when I was 10 (I am 23 now) and once I stole a rock from a display either at my school or somewhere else (I cant remember) when I was 8 or 9. I have no closure on this because I do not know how to ask for forgiveness from besides Heavenly Father. I feel like asking forgiveness from Heavenly Father isn't enough. I could just be paranoid, but I am not sure if I just let it go. Any guidance from you would help me so much. Thank you.

Anonymous, 1/20/2010

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Richard from Orem:

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I did a lot of stupid stuff in my past too, and much of which 20+ years later I wouldn't even know where to begin to seek the people I wronged. I talked this over with my bishop at the time, and he said that one of Satan's tools is to tell us we are unforgivable thorugh Christ because we cannot make the correct amendments, but that is like much of Satan's workings, a lie.

The fact that you feel so bad about your past is part of the forgiving proccess. Do the best that you are able and trust that God the Father, through Christ, Jesus, will make it all well in this life and deffinatly in the life beyond. Keep praying for forgiveness and discuss your feelings with our Father and ask him to allow Christ to take upon him those poor feelings too.

I testify to you that Christ will take upon him all thost poor feelings and allow you peace. That's what he did and does for us. He is like the ultamate, emmotional bandaid for anything this life can throw at us.

Know that God is always more that willing to forgive a sincere, repentant sinner, and accept that usually it is us who forget to forgive ourselves, or find we can't or won't...

Chad D. Richardson gave a great talk on this entitled "Forgiving Oneself." I invite you to read it.
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