You Are Always Forgivable
/You are always forgivable. You can forgive yourself even when…
You are guilty and feel regret.
You can’t fix what you damaged.
You can forgive yourself even when others won’t.
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You are always forgivable. You can forgive yourself even when…
You are guilty and feel regret.
You can’t fix what you damaged.
You can forgive yourself even when others won’t.
Where are you on the God Idea Continuum?
Pretty comfortable with the God Idea and God-talk
Hmmm, God is a little more complicated
God -talk is a trigger for me
Nope, don’t buy it.
Our exploration of forgiveness requires us to take a deeper, bigger view of not only the F Word, but also this G Word. We need words and images to talk about anything, including what we refer to as “”God.” Can you recognize and honor the ways you necessarily box-in that 3rd strand whenever you put words and images to it? Can you also find ways to hold yourself accountable to a bigger, deeper perspective than the one you can have by yourself? No matter where you are at with the “concept” at a given moment?
Talk about this together! Ask someone about their responses and struggles with this and really listen.
Talk with someone you trust about this. What did you learn? What did it make you wonder? What was the hardest part for you?
Didn’t do it yet? Where can you practice that it is easier so you can build your skills for the harder places?
Accepting the damage of hurt and wrongs in our relationships and world as inevitable/ normal is like walking around with pebbles in your shoes
Read MoreWe think Forgiveness:
Is about the other person
Means forgetting, getting over or overlooking hurts and wrongs
Makes things like they were before
Is too hard
What else do you think about Forgiveness? How could thinking about forgiveness differently shift something important for you?
This Week’s Forgiveness Challenge: Name a time when someone did something that hurt you. Did you go to that person to try to work it out? Or avoid them because it was uncomfortable? Which is easier? Which is more likely to breathe new life into the relationship?
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Speak, speak up – even a whisper counts; let us each name our grief and give each other permission to do likewise. Let us face outward, and inward…
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