Walking through forgiveness
Forgiveness is essential to healing, without cultivating forgiveness recovery will not be complete. One important point to consider as you make the decision to forgive is considering it as part of your growth and development. It is crucial to your ability to foster relationships and live at peace with yourself and those around you. Cultivate the capacity to forgive everyone for everything.
When you approach forgiveness from that place, it makes it easier to do. However, I appreciate that saying the word is easier than carrying out the action and I have also begun to realize that this journey will be different for everyone.
Pardoning someone is important and integral to healing it is a necessary part of the journey to freedom. Nevertheless, saying I will forgive and walking through forgiveness is entirely different. The pivotal moment happens when we have to walk the talk.
The benefits
When you forgive, you will ward off bitterness, anger, contempt, self-pity and a host of negative emotions and feelings that can plunge you into an abyss of further pain and confusion. Forgiveness frees you from that and heals you.
Walking Through Forgiveness
As I mentioned above everyone’s journey through forgiveness will be different, this is especially true if you are living with the person you are forgiving. You are maybe trying to hold them accountable, trying to believe that they have changed while rescuing yourself from bitterness and ensure your emotional stability. You may need to heal again after they changed as trust is rebuilt so will your ability to forgive and let go.
Forgiveness is also a choice but, when you are in pursuit of freedom, it is the only option.
Many sometimes struggle with the extent of forgiveness they think:
Can I forgive and leave or set boundaries
Can I forgive and still be in pain when I remember. The hurt may not have its root in unforgiveness but could be because you have not faced the impact of the wrong done to you and give yourself permission to grieve and move on. When you choose to forgive, you will be in a place of beauty, pain and freedom all at once.
Some who are struggling may ask can I be free? If Jesus indeed offers freedom then why don’t I have it? Try letting go of the bitterness and anger for a while, and you will experience the peace that seems to be eluding you. Jesus does set us free, but we have to choose to accept it in its entirety.
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