In the long run, it’s not a question of whether they deserve to be forgiven. We don’t deserve for God to forgive us. You’re not forgiving them for their sake. You’re doing it for yourself.
For your own health and well-being, forgiveness is simply the most energy-efficient option. It frees you from the incredibly toxic, debilitating drain of holding a grudge. Don’t let these people live rent free in your head.
If they hurt you before, why let them keep doing it year after year in your mind and heart? It’s not worth it but it takes heart effort to stop it. You can muster that heart power to forgive them, not so much for them, but as a way of looking out for yourself.
It’s one thing you can be totally selfish about. And if you don’t want to forgive them for your own benefit, you might even find it in you to forgive them because ….
Or you can harbor it all and just keep living with everything…
Forgiving is letting it go, setting free whatever happened in the past, letting go of things that can’t be changed or undone… freeing yourself from the pain, the burden, just everything.
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