Who’s that person or group of people who hurt you deeply? What are those words you can’t forget? That betrayal? The rejection, dismissal, even persecution you’ve endured that left a wound?
Maybe it was long, long ago. Or yesterday.
After time, you may even be able to insulate yourself and forget it for an hour, or a day, or even a week.
But then someone says something. Or does something. Or you see something out of the corner of your eye.
That wounded place gets bumped and it hurts, and you realize you need to forgive again. And again.
Because hurting people hurt people. Continue reading