Forgiveness. Probably one of the hardest things that us as humans have to display on a daily basis, and if not daily, at least a few times a week.
We live in an unperfect world, with unperfect people. People hurt us, they say mean things, we say mean things. We mess up, they mess up, I mean we might as well face it, forgiveness is a definite MUST. All the time, there are things about other people, or situations, that we have to decide to forgive. Forgivness is a choice, not a feeling, and with forgivness also comes forgetting.
I never understand when people say, I will forgive you, but I won't forget it. I mean, what's the point of forgiving me, if you aren't going to forget what happened? Why hold on to hurt, when you can just let it go. Why continue to replay what happened over and over in your head until you start feeling upset again? Really, it makes no sense.
If I am going to truly demonstarte forgiveness, that means I need to forget, to the same extent that I forgive. I need to be able know in my heart that I haven' t just forgiven what was done, but I have also forgotten it. If God can do it for us, I know that He can help us do it for other people.
These last few weeks have been tough for me, and forgivness has been a lesson I am having to re-learn. It's hard, it's tough, and it asks for me to be humble. It's a  difficult lesson to learn, a lesson that throughout life, many times we have to learn over.  Forgivness asks for me to love people no matter what they have done. It asks me to forget, to move on, to  believe in them again, and to trust them.  It's something I can't do on my own.
But as these last few weeks have gone by, and I have found myself needing to forgive different people,  to truly forgive them and forget the past; I have been getting help from the person who has mastered forgivness. The person who I fail time and time again, and who always takes me back and loves me just the same. I don't deserve it. I never will and I never have, and yet, there it is. When I fail and ask forgivness, He takes my sin and tosses it into the depths of the sea, and never remembers it again. What a gift!
So as I continue this journey of forgivness, and I continue to learn from the teacher and of all teachers, I pray tha I will learn to love like He loves, and to be able to forgive with a heart like His.