Forgiveness gives freedom.

摘要

I just read Susan Salladay's article "The Ethics of Forgiveness" (31:3). I appreciated her focus on forgiveness as a process. When anger comes up, we have to continually turn it over to God and choose to let it go, rather than fantasizing revenge and letting the anger and hurt build. Lewis B. Smedes in The Art of Forgiveness describes forgiveness as choosing not to take revenge. Not getting back at someone stops the revenge cycle. There are times when the offending person may never know about our decision to forgive. Sometimes trust is so broken that reconciliation does not happen.