Moving Past Those Things Which Haunt Us It seems appropriate being so close to Halloween to blog about those things which have haunted our past and, more than likely, our dreams - wide awake or when asleep. You know, those things which either we did, or someone did to us, and we just can't seem …
Tag: Forgive and Forget
Forgiveness: Learning to Let Go
As I re-read my first post of the year on forgiveness, I realized one of the ways I didn't cover to better develop a forgiving heart is that of letting go. We so often want to hang on to all those things that hurt us. Why? Perhaps, so that we can see when it's happening …
Aging & Forgiveness
As I sit here today with a few unexpected minutes to write this blog post, I'm drawn to share with you my thoughts about how forgiveness is a vital part of the aging process. It seems with each decade I'm reminded more and more about our immortality and mortality as humans. There isn't a day …
Forgiveness As a Lifestyle
When a person chooses not to forgive but to hold onto slights against another, they choose isolation, sadness, heartbreak, and even more. Whether feeling slighted and choosing to hold onto the hurt is of merit or not, withholding forgiveness simply seals us into being miserable forever. We may deny the effect of not forgiving others, …
Forgiveness Times Seventy
Lent is a good time to talk about forgiveness and how many times we should be willing to forgive someone. Things happen all year long; every day of our life. Forgiving seven times, or seven times seventy means to continually forgive others and self. Seven times seventy is really such a broad number that I …
Virginia Alice Crawford 