Can you find this link?: http://www.guidetopsychology.com/forgive.htm
I hope you can just go to it. I don't know what I'm doing or how to do it. So, if you can't get there you can go to "Plan B" and find it the way I did. Google in forgiveness, and when the page comes up, then click on "forgiveness, psychology, and mental health" - about half way down the page. A great article and I do believe it would be very helpful for all of us to read. I know it seemed helpful for ME. Let me know what you think.
I am also snail-mailing you another article on forgiveness that I thought was excellent. I hope you have enough time to read this and what i sent.
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Wow, so much to think about. Recently, I was struggling with forgiveness. It was not over something that was done to me, but to someone I love very much. I had extreme anger. I wrestled with it for weeks, I even posted on our blog about it. I just could not seem to get to a place where I could accept that a person could even do what that person had done. But once I accepted the act or behavior it was much easier to reach a point where I could forgive. Not forget, not trust, not even recover what has been lost. I prayed and prayed and confessed my anger and asked to be released from that. I even prayed for the individual who caused the injury (not even remotely easy for me to do). God has a great way of getting us to the place where we need to be to move on. But sometimes the things He expects from me seem nearly impossible! You need to check out the Brian Tracy (Tracey?) series called the psychology of achievement (I know I spelled that wrong). He talks about forgiveness and how important it is to our own success. It is so easy to say, yet sometimes the absolute hardest thing to do. Great article!
Thank you for sharing this, Mickey. Yes, forgiveness truly is the absolute hardest thing to do, and hard to understand, and necessary for our mental health and spiritual health and even our physical health!
I will check out the Brian Tracy series. Thanks for this.
I have learned to pray for those who have caused me harm (like you said, not an easy thing to do.) It seems to release me from so many negative thoughts and feelings. It is very freeing to let loose of all of that and go forward with a positive outlook (a little smarter about it though.)
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