i find it much harder to forgive sometimes even impossible to forgive when my view of the situation is that i’m the saint and they are the sinner sure and i think it’s so important to recognize before jesus says that we should also forgive people who have created emotional physical spiritual whatever the debt is people have hurt us so now they have created a debt for us before we forgive other people that we recognize our need to receive forgiveness from god which helps me remember the same grace that i desperately need

is the grace that i should be all the more eager to give and grace is not giving someone else permission to continue to hurt you grace is recognizing that you’re human i’m human you hurt me because someone else has hurt you so you are carrying burdens of hurt and while i may not be able to have compassion on you because you’ve hurt me so much that would that would be hard to just muster up compassion for the person that hurt you but i can have compassion on the hurt you must have suffered that led you to making some of the

decisions that you’ve made against me and i don’t even have to know what hurt they have suffered but i can always assume rightly most of the time we say don’t assume things but it’s not a far stretch for me to remind myself that person has suffered hurt because every person has suffered hurt and it’s from their own places of hurt that they would then do something that would cause hurt to me but it’s so important first that i recognize god i need your forgiveness because if if i am hesitant to recognize that i need god’s forgiveness or i only

think that i need this much forgiveness from god if i only think i need this much forgiveness from god then i just let that little tiny bit of forgiveness flow to me and i have very little forgiveness to then let flow through me but when i throw my arms open wide and say god i need abundant forgiveness from you when god’s forgiveness flows to me in such abundance that he wants to give me in full abundance his absolute forgiveness when i let it flow to me i can then let it flow through me but so much of me remembering