FORGIVENESS
The time has come for us to FORGIVE. For what? You know better than I. For the wound—or wounds. For the ways you have been failed. For things done and said and for things someone did not do or did not say. FORGIVENESS is far more real and meaningful when we are specific about what we are FORGIVING.
FORGIVENESS is setting a prisoner free and then discovering the prisoner was you.
Letting go of resentment toward an abuser feels like letting go of justice; it may also feel like letting the abuser win.
We must forgive those who hurt us. The reason is simple: Bitterness and unforgiveness set their hooks deep in our hearts; they are chains that hold us captive to the wounds and the messages of those wounds. Until you FORGIVE you remain their prisoner. Unforgiveness and bitterness can wreck your life and the lives of others.
BITTERNESS
the slow suicide
To harbor bitterness toward someone is like swallowing poison and then waiting for that person to die.
An ungrateful HEART always sees what’s wrong with life. The longer we live without thankfulness, the more embittered we become. The more embittered we become, the more we find ourselves overwhelmed with depression. Bitterness in the end leads to hopelessness.
Bitterness requires that you live in the past; hope requires that you live for tomorrow.
The original wounds were not of your doing, but no one but you keeps choosing to go back there. Your whole life can seem to be defined by less than a half dozen memories, but the memories are all negative.
Memories have a way of defining not only who you were, but who you are and who you will become.
Give a time you were FORGIVEN.
Have you ever wanted to be FORGIVEN, but the other person stayed mad? How did you feel?
What makes it hard to FORGIVE?
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