Forgiveness isn’t nearly as hard for me when I have a healthier system of processing my thoughts, my feelings, my perceptions and beliefs about my circumstances, people, myself, and God. But when you’ve been deeply hurt, it’s hard to have any thoughts about what happened other than the most obvious. We can easily assume bad things are caused by bad people causing bad realities that will never be anything but bad. That’s an oversimplification but an unfortunate trap of thinking I’ve been stuck in for years.
