When we truly forgive, we do not merely forget but we should ACCEPT the situation. Forgetting could be tricky because it is possible for our memory to flash images of the past, whether we like it or not. However, when we accept the situation, we recognize it as something that has happened. We may forget or remember it, but one thing is certain, we have learned a valuable lesson from it.
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
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