"But if anyone has caused grief....you ought rather forgive and comfort, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. Therefore I urge you to reafirm your love to him...Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive."

Forgiveness is often difficult....but truly a liberating, loving gesture. Forgiveness must be genuine, sincere, heartfelt. We often pay lip service to forgiveness....saying that we forgive but do we ever really forget? God has forgiven me 100 times 100 for a myriad of wrongs....should I not then practice that same forgiveness. If our goal is to inhale the character of God and exhale His love and generosity, shouldn't we practice forgiveness as he does? While it is hard to forgive some of the wrongs that those we love commit, it is neccessary if we are to grow as God's women. Forgiveness heals the forgiver as much as the forgiven.