“How can I forgive when it hurts so much….”
Forgiveness is a concept that I’ve thought and written about since my seminary days, almost thirty years ago. It’s been a tough nut to crack. While I have found it easy to accept the value of forgiveness as an idea, putting it into practice in everyday life has proven inordinately challenging, particularly where deep wounding is involved.
In spite of our best intentions, we all carry hurts that seem to fester for years, wounds that cling to us like glue, no matter how much psychological soap and water we use to eradicate the pain.
A wound inflicted in childhood can follow us like a dark shadow from relationship to relationship, situation to situation. An abusive or absent parent, a violent stranger, a classroom bully, sexual assault, soul scaring wounds heaped upon the innocent leave scars so deep that it is difficult…
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