Living for Today
“Forgiveness is the powerful assertion that bad things will not ruin your today even though they may have spoiled your past.”
—Dr. Fred Luskin in Forgive for Good
Category: Forgiveness
6 Posts
A Change of Focus
“My central message here is when you bring more positive experiences into your life, your hurts will diminish in importance. In fact, this is the first step to taking responsibility for how you feel and beginning to forgive. If I rent out more and more space in my mind to appreciating my children or the loveliness of a rainy day, there is as a result less space and time for dwelling on the hurts.â€
–Dr. Fred Luskin, Forgive for Good
Strategic Mistake
“The enemy specializes in taking advantage of any refusal to forgive.”
–Beth Moore, Praying God’s Word Day by Day
A Good Marriage
“A good marriage is the union of two forgivers.”
–Ruth Graham
God’s Forgiveness
“When people die, they are forgiven and welcomed home. Then God will help them figure out how to clean up the disgusting messes they have made. God has skills and ideas on how to do this.”
–Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually), p. 29
Forgiveness is a choice
“Forgiving is a choice that brings healing–probably more to the giver than to the recipient. When we forgive, we do not change the circumstances or injustices of the past. What we change is the future–for ourselves and for the ones we have forgiven. It is the most freeing choice we can make.”
–Carol Kent, A New Kind of Normal