Thank you so much for this. I, too, have struggled to get down to the brass tacks of forgiveness, and actually get a handle on what it means and what it looks like. Your post helps tremendously. I also get easily hung up on the marriage of forgiveness and boundaries, and how they co-exist (or doubting if they should at all, in my moments of sliding back into fundamentalism.) Anyway, thanks for the care and wisdom you’ve put into this post. I appreciate you.
"Honestly, practicing forgiveness was practicing humanization."- This is my favorite sentence from today's post. The idea of choosing to forgive (or, really, choosing to alter any emotion/thought/involuntary internal feeling) has also always felt abstract to me. One way I chose to forgive someone before was to pray for them and ask for God to bless them (in life and in business- business is very important to them), and though it felt inauthentic, I would also be honest with God by saying "I don't feel this way, but I want to." There were times when the compassion I felt for this person shone brightly, and other times when I felt I hadn't even begun the work of forgiveness.
What I appreciate about you calling forgiveness a practice is that it gives validity to the previous sentence. I must continue to practice, regardless of the way forgiveness is presenting itself in each passing day.
Thank you so much. This post was really helpful. And in a (Christian) world where we talk a lot about forgiveness, I haven't found a lot of resources that have been helpful in showing me how to actually practice forgiveness.
Amazing, Savannah. Thank you for this note, it is and will be very helpful for me (and maybe our family). Thank you for sharing your struggle and story of the journey so far. It seems as though you have been on a long journey and although it is difficult to understand if there's an "end", at least, you are able to review at this stage, or it seems like a pause in which to reflect. I like your analogy/metaphor of picking up rubbish on your walks, and forgiveness - it's easy to identify with that. I'll try it - "bit by bit" (little by little).
Thank you so much for this. I, too, have struggled to get down to the brass tacks of forgiveness, and actually get a handle on what it means and what it looks like. Your post helps tremendously. I also get easily hung up on the marriage of forgiveness and boundaries, and how they co-exist (or doubting if they should at all, in my moments of sliding back into fundamentalism.) Anyway, thanks for the care and wisdom you’ve put into this post. I appreciate you.
"Honestly, practicing forgiveness was practicing humanization."- This is my favorite sentence from today's post. The idea of choosing to forgive (or, really, choosing to alter any emotion/thought/involuntary internal feeling) has also always felt abstract to me. One way I chose to forgive someone before was to pray for them and ask for God to bless them (in life and in business- business is very important to them), and though it felt inauthentic, I would also be honest with God by saying "I don't feel this way, but I want to." There were times when the compassion I felt for this person shone brightly, and other times when I felt I hadn't even begun the work of forgiveness.
What I appreciate about you calling forgiveness a practice is that it gives validity to the previous sentence. I must continue to practice, regardless of the way forgiveness is presenting itself in each passing day.
Thank you so much. This post was really helpful. And in a (Christian) world where we talk a lot about forgiveness, I haven't found a lot of resources that have been helpful in showing me how to actually practice forgiveness.
Absolutely beautiful ❤️
Amazing, Savannah. Thank you for this note, it is and will be very helpful for me (and maybe our family). Thank you for sharing your struggle and story of the journey so far. It seems as though you have been on a long journey and although it is difficult to understand if there's an "end", at least, you are able to review at this stage, or it seems like a pause in which to reflect. I like your analogy/metaphor of picking up rubbish on your walks, and forgiveness - it's easy to identify with that. I'll try it - "bit by bit" (little by little).
So good Savannah ❤️. Encouraged by your thoughts here, thankyou!!