Why is Forgiveness So Hard? Webster defines forgiveness as “to grant free pardon and to give up all claim on account of an offense or debt.” Did you get that? “To grant free pardon” and “to give up all claim of an offense or debt”. So basically, forgiveness is to wipe the slate clean like it never even happened. So, that means once we have truly forgiven someone, we shouldn’t be bringing up what they did 5 days, 5 months or 5 years later. And that’s not what a lot of us do when we say we “forgive” someone. It seems like a lot of people’s definition of forgiveness looks more like “I’ll forgive you, but I won’t forget.” Which isn’t forgiveness. So why is it so hard for us to forgive?
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:46:55 +0000
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