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#47180 - 08/19/03 03:03 PM
2 Corinthians 2; 7-11 Forgive!
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"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.
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#47183 - 08/29/03 02:26 AM
Re: 2 Corinthians 2; 7-11 Forgive!
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Registered: 07/02/03
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Loc: Alabama
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Evie, To me, learning to forgive and forget is just that. A learning. In my opinion, when you focus on helping others, you cannot help but be filled with pure joy and love which is what it's all about. You feel their pain, and realize that you can be instrumental in helping to ease that pain. By taking the emphasis and focus off of yourself, and by giving and serving others, you LEARN to forgive and forget because your heart is too full with love to feel the past and it's negative influence. At least, this has been my experience. I hope this helps in some way.
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#47184 - 08/29/03 03:10 AM
Re: 2 Corinthians 2; 7-11 Forgive!
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Registered: 08/27/03
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well put and I agree - it is a learning, a life long process.........and I think its important that we keep working on it - through helping others, through prayer, through trying..... thanks!
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#47185 - 09/03/03 03:30 PM
Re: 2 Corinthians 2; 7-11 Forgive!
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There is a great old saying that goes something like, "To forget history's lesson is to repeat them". So forgetting a problem, history, pain, whatever, is not really possible and probably not too wise. In dealing with our childhoods, our marriages, our relationships, to forget is to repeat. To remember, but with love and forgiveness, opens the door to the possibility of positive change and repair. In trying to rebuild my life after the past year of pain, I am determined to remember all that led up to the crisis, to evaluate with honesty and candor, the strengths and weaknesses of my family, and to resolve to work toward correcting the problems and building something better. But to pretend that one can ever forget some of the pains of the past is naive. It takes more work to forgive and to move on than to stay angry...often that is why people stay angry.
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