Children are friends, parents are angry with each other. How to reconcile families?translated

Reader question:

Hello! One family is offended by me. I admit that I was wrong, but after the conversation I did not find understanding. Our children are friends. Their child complained about his parents (about food, brother, cried). I told my mother - she was emotionally offended. We also took children to the section: we agreed to take turns, but only we took them. I refused - I heard persuasion, although this is their child. Is it worth trying to improve the relationship? The children are friends, we live nearby, the parents are offended. What should I do?

Maria

Priest's answer:

Priest Evgeniy CHEBYKIN

Hello Maria!

I am very sorry that such an unpleasant experience happened to you. God grant that all this ends well in the end!

It seems to me that now it will be quite enough if you forgive with all your heart those people about whom you write in your letter for everything and in the future try to maintain as favorable relations with them as possible, and also pray for their health and well-being.

“Nothing is so powerful before the Lord as the forgiveness of offenses,” St. Theophan the Recluse writes about this, “because it is an imitation of one of the actions of God’s mercy closest to us, and we are not tempted by anything so easily as by anger...