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Question: My mother has died before I could apologize to her for not having behaved properly towards her in my life. Now I blame myself for not having done it. I find no peace. I cannot pray. Can a person forgive from heaven? How do we know we have been forgiven?
Answer: We talk about this with tact and restraint, as death and eternity are beyond our ken. We do know that a mother’s heart is not going to allow her daughter to suffer on earth while she is glorified in heaven. The daughter’s remorse is not a matter of religion or morals but of psychology, and it has to be treated as such. What is helpful for us in this message is the lesson to learn to love those around us and to tell them we love them. Let no one of them leave us without our having told them our love.
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