Before You Leave the Room: The Unclaimed Inheritance of Forgiveness
There was once a rich man who had a son who left home to live a life of crime and immorality, bringing disgrace and shame upon his family and father . Despite the pain, the father loved his son deeply and mourned his absence for years . One day, the son received a notice that his father had passed away and his final wish was for the son to attend the reading of his will . The son decided to honor his father's request and went to the lawyer's office . As the lawyer began to read the will, it started with a list of the son's moral and ethical failures, systematically detailing the actions that had hurt his father deeply in his life . Agitated and unable to sit through the painful litany of his sins being read out, the son stood up and left the room before the lawyer could finish reading the will. Sadly, he left too soon. The will concluded with the father's expression of love and a declaration that he had forgiven his son ...