This week’s theme of forgiveness has given us a lot to wrestle with. Don’t forget where we started this week...in the forgiveness of Christ. We can’t ever expect to perfectly forgive as Christ has forgiven us. He does what we can’t do for ourselves!

Does it help to think of forgiveness in two different ways?

1. Forgiveness of others for the purpose of mending a relationship. There are things that we can truly forgive and try to reconcile with someone.

2. Forgiveness as an act of turning someone over to God because their actions have harmed and traumatized us and we simply can’t (for the sake of our health and wellness) have any kind of relationship with them.

What are your thoughts? Have you wrestled with this?