Not forgiving is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
It's relationship that damages us, and relationship that will heal us.
We're all users and abusers, but addiction sets in when we abandon reality in exchange for self-protection.
To forgive is to move forward.
Someone very wise once took me aside and explained to me the two steps of forgiveness. The first step is taking your hands off from around that person's neck. The second step is actually desiring good to come into their lives.
Far too often we think that forgetting about and burying our anger with others will never resurrect into a problem worth trifling with. But the flaw in that thinking is that they get off free and we are trapped in a prison of our own making. Until we can roll that event, that relationship, that abuse over to God and let go, we will never be able to receive the good that God wants to bring into our lives through relationship. We are trapped until we forgive.
Lord, help us all as we move in the direction, no matter how small the steps, of forgiveness.
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