Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again

by Lysa TerKeurst

When we have personal marked moments in our own history it can feel like Before Crisis and After Devastation.

You can’t edit reality to try and force healing. You can’t fake yourself into being okay with what happened. But you can decide that the one who hurt you doesn’t get to decide what you do with your memories.

It is necessary for you not to let pain rewrite your memories. And it’s absolutely necessary not to let pain ruin your future.

While the truth is sometimes hard to hear, God gives it to us because He knows what our hearts and souls really need. It is His truth that sets us free. Forgiveness is possible, but it won’t always feel possible.

Forgiveness isn’t an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation. Cooperation is what I’ve been missing. God knew we couldn’t do it on our own.

Forgiveness isn’t an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation.

God can redeem your life, even if damaged human relationships don’t come back together.

Sometimes words sound so possible until the living of them feels impossible. Stupid rhetoric.