Wrestling With Forgiveness
These past four years have challenged me to dig deeper into the practice of forgiving. What I noticed was that as I was walking through the layers of hurt and forgiveness, I began to try to find logical reasons of justification for the actions of the people who hurt me.
What God has taught me through this season is that I do not have to find reasons of justification for the actions of people that hurt me. I am not always called to reconcile those relationships but I am called to forgive.
Forgiveness
Do you have a hard time forgiving yourself? I do! Do you consider yourself God, able to dish out forgiveness to those you see fit but think there are different standards for you? I guess I certainly did! Does that mean we consider ourselves above others that we would not be subject to temptation or the sin that was passed down through generations? Are we blameless?