I feel this pain in my chest since that day slowly easing. This is a good thing, but does it mean it's slowly fading? Perhaps that's what needs to happen. God knows who I am and I'm sure He knows I deserve the equivalent of...me. He gave me a chance to take back the dignity that was taken from me and I'm proud of myself for being able to speak up.
Forgiveness is not about letting the other person get away with something. It's about allowing the love of God to overshadow the hurt and betrayal.
My heart no longer feels heavy.
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Disclaimer: I can't help but comment and offer my opinion.
Although I totally agree with your second paragraph, what I can say is it's not as easy as it sounds. I am sure you're well aware of it.
I am glad you appear to have it all figured out. Nonetheless, it's very ironic though that you're feeling this way and I totally understand why. But I just find so much irony behind that statement. Maybe now you understand how so many others feel. (I don't mean to sound hostile but I'm just speaking my mind) Hope you all the best.
I'm not sure what you mean by " now you understand how so many others feel." I feel like that comment was implying that I didn't understand how others felt before.
I don't think I've ever devalued someone before.
Why is it ironic that I feel this way? And what DO you understand?
I know it's not as easy as it sounds. But it's possible and I've chosen to forgive. I've made a choice to create space for communication so that it would be possible to forgive rather than closing the door and walking away.
Have you?
I think we're going off tangent. I thought you'd understand my comment, but clearly you don't, which is fine. I no longer find the need to explain because it honesty doesn't matter to me as much. I just wanted to make a comment and I did. Like I said before, I don't mean to sound hostile so I'll just leave it at that.
Thanks for your input but if you didn't want to sound hostile, you wouldn't have written what you wrote in the first place.
We're not going off tangent. I can only respond to what I've read and clearly you were being very vague. So if you want me to understand what your comment really means, then you'll explain.
But you don't and that's exactly what I mean by closing the door and walking away.
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