An investigation into the phenomena and practices of spiritual ...

y not having a normal relationship with their grandfather during their developing years.Eventually she had taken steps to heal the rift by allowing the children to see theirgrandfather under supervision. This required a deep centred healing, one that in my viewwould be miraculous and probably not easily explainable. She required a strategy and afeasible explanation for using this strategy of supervised access. However she has takencertain actions to ep her children safe and to brea generation curse‟. Theexperience of forgiveness for her father does not appear to have taken place with thisyoung mother although the process of breaking the generation curse has begun. It may bethat even when this young mother has forgiven her father, the breaking of the generationalcurse will involve a change in the emotional relationship with the mother and her father sothat she can protect her own children.Hickey (2000) goes on to say that the blood of Jesus is all sufficient, powerful anddevastating to family iniquities in your heritage. Positive thinking like counselling, evendoing religious things like singing in the choir, whilst good, will not solve the problem.They may provide temporary relief, but only the blood of Jesus is the permanent answer,transforming your curse into a blessing. The comments and experiences of respondent 11illustrates some similarities with Hicy‟s views on suffering and healing, that Jesus hasthe power to heal.The view of forgiveness held by Witvleit et al (2001) provides a psychological expositionof the effects of forgiveness on the physical and psychological body comparing religiousand humanist perspectives. They suggest the humanists‟ emotional experience of nonforgivenessand forgiveness are very similar to the Christian experiences, in line with theteaching of Christ and the apostles.224