What my life has taught me about Forgiveness
FORGIVENESS 2022
I have a long and complicated relationship with forgiveness. At first, I couldn’t do it because I equated forgiveness with allowing the other person to get back in my life and perhaps redo the damage.
Forgiveness
August 2, 2010
I realize that I am repeating a lesson that I have learned earlier in my life, but here goes: In my mind forgiveness is attached to an ongoing relationship. And certainly forgiveness is part and parcel of each and every ongoing relationship. It is the way that I see it in the relationship that is mistaken. I thought that if I give forgiveness it is the same as letting the other person back into my vulnerable space to wreak havoc once again. Though I am mistaken, I would keep my definition as it serves me well…
Dictionary.com states “to cease to feel resentment against”. Of course, I already knew this, years ago as I was reading Emmet Fox’s interpretation of Sermon on the Mount I came across the following passage: It cannot be too often repeated that to entertain feelings of anger, resentment, jealousy, spite, and so forth, is certain to damage your health in some way or other, and quite likely to damage it very severely indeed. Remember that the question of the justification or otherwise for such feelings…
