I begin this video post on Friar Tuck's not having done a lot of studying yet on the issue of forgiveness, but having done a lot of thinking and praying about forgiveness and being forgiving. My thinking starts with some of the thorny and challenging parts of the passage, "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors".
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I really needed this today.
I have heard many people say that they have forgiven someone but have not forgotten the trespass. This to me is similar to what you were saying about acting like you have forgiven someone when you really haven't. When a person forgives and not forgets; do you think this person is still holding a grudge?
@ momma bear--forgiveness is not as much about forgetting what has happened, as remembering rightly. I think you can hurt and remember a wrong, and still not be holding a grudge.
This is intresting. Forgiveness is just a hard action to grasp BECAUSE of all the feelings that can come back. For example, my post earlier this week regarding my Sister In Law. Brother In Law is in jail. Received a 15 year sentence. I feel bad for him much of the time, being boxed up, the lack of freedom. We can all say that we forgive him, and most of the family can "see" how what happened came about, even though we cannot completely grasp it. We feel bad for him that he made a decision (or did not) and reacted in the heat of the moment. BUT when we have been notified that he is asking for his case to be reviewed and for his sentence to be lessened, the feelings surface. We are not ready to see him at the grocery store. Or know he is living across town. Or hanging out back at the Elk's lodge (club? whatever). So that feeling then challenges, did we or do we really forgive him??
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