Understanding the brokenness of the people that have wounded us helps bring grace to forgive. This is not the goal or destination, it is a step on a journey. The destination is for your wounder to face their brokenness and the destruction they have received and given to others. The goal is that they might be healed and whole not just forgiven. We may never reach that goal in this life but we must not fall short of trying to get there. Forgiveness does not change everything...it allows change to begin. It is also not being unforgiving to not go back for more wounding and brokenness from an unhealed person. We can forgive those who have hurt us but if they want to keep on behaving and relating to us in harmful ways, we must know the limits of our own hearts and do not want to enable abusive and unsafe people to continue more harm. I can forgive the dog who bit me. I can understand that the dog was abused and became mean and I can I feel empathy and grace for the dog. I probably wont let my kids play with the dog and I will be very cautious with it for a long time. I am not unforgiving if I dont let the dog in the house...I am being wise.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:47:11 +0000
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