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5 Steps to Forgiveness
This is forgiveness as it applies to you and those close to you — not big picture disputes.
Let’s talk about forgiveness. It’s been a subset of my writing all week here.
It is very, very important to acknowledge that forgiveness is NOT forgetting being wronged, nor ignoring that something happened, nor denying that you were upset or offended by something.
This is equally true whether this is a matter of forgiving yourself or someone else.
When it comes to the bigger picture disputes we’re inundated with every day, the idea of forgiveness isn’t truly applicable.
Right now, there are a lot of people and circumstances that will be difficult, if not veritably impossible, to forgive. This almost turned into a whole political thing — because, in the United States right now, we’re faced with a lot of people doing and saying terrible things that are largely unforgivable.
When it comes to the grand scheme of things, forgiveness is a challenging idea. I, for one, will not just forgive the people who are blindly siding with white supremacists, hate-mongers, and threatening people I care about just because we’re on opposite sides of an artificial divide. I don’t expect anyone else to forgive this — not without those people…
