When you’re so hurt the emotions flare at will, you feel like screaming at the sky. It can easily be blinding. You lose your natural good-natured self and find it hard to love. You struggle with grouchiness and irritability, and feel like sulking in one corner is the best thing to do. You find it hard to forgive. You hang on to that hurt.
We live in a wounded world. People are hurting each other, sometimes even without knowing, and sometimes driven by circumstances or the need to get ahead. While we can’t bear the responsibility for the other person to feel remorse or to undo the wrong, we can take charge of our own hurt feelings. We can choose to let it eat us up inside, or we can choose to let it go. We can choose to love even before the other admits that he was wrong.
Today, I’m choosing to let go of that hurt and anger. And to give God the pleasure of healing me.
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Give grace,
Even if you don’t want to.
Give grace,
Because it’s undeserved.
Give grace,
Through every breath and every word.
Give grace,
You received it freely anyway.
Give grace,
Go ahead, set yourself free.
Give grace,
He can use it to transform lives.
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Will you forgive?
