Along with flabulous vs fabulous, I am going to be starting another series of blogs that have to do with forgiveness, or lack of forgiveness. I myself seem to find forgiving a very challenging task at times. I don’t always know if it REALLY IS better to forgive than to just forget or just move on from that specific situation/set of situations at hand. I don’t always know why people forgive either. Nor do I completely understand how they can forgive SO quickly.
Example: The Amish Community + Charles Carl Roberts IV. Almost immediately, the Amish community [pretty much nationwide] forgave this man. What did they forgive him for? Where was their grieving period? How could they not have been angry?
I myself have not been in situations as horrible as this, however -I still find it very difficult to forgive certain situations/actions/etc. Myself, I have to take in what I am forgiving somebody for. I couldn’t see me forgiving myself if I killed someone else -so why should I think that someone else would forgive me for that?
It’s something that I wouldn’t so much as say I have been struggling with lately, but something I have been trying to figure it out. I have certain people who go on about this topic all of the time, and how I should do it more often than I do.
With this series, I am going to continuously take in emails. I will gather 10 at a time and post into a blog. No names will be given out. Just situations/actions. That way, the situation/actions are seen, not necessarily a person. I will post the stories and then let my readers leave their comments on said stories. What do YOU want forgiveness for? What are you having a hard time forgiving SOMEONE ELSE of? What are you opinions of forgiveness? Can you TRULY forgive if you don’t forget? How come it’s easier to forget than it is to forgive?
What do you all think?
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