To Forgive, Or Not To Forgive – That Is The Question
We all face times in our lives when we have to make a choice: Will we forgive, or will we not forgive?
My friend, Matt McWilliams, wrote a post about forgiveness over on his blog today, and he asked me to share it with The Stretched Community.
I’d held on to unforgiveness for too long. It was time to finally forgive my father.
Time to move past the hurt, the rejection, the anger. It was time.
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I can’t tell you how many times I said that to myself. And it never happened.
Days wrestling with my feelings turned into weeks, which turned into months, and eventually years. Layers of failed attempts or flat out refusals to do so had hardened my heart. Would I ever be able to forgive him?
Or had those years actually softened my heart? Had they actually prepared me for that night recently when I would read about breaking generational chains and forgiving my dad?
As I stood brushing my teeth, getting ready for bed on the night before Easter, a voice said:
Write to him.
Write to him? Write what?