On card after card, I spilled out every fact I could remember of all that had so deeply wounded me. Jim told me to place them on the floor facing up in a long line that snaked around the office. Then he handed me a stack of red felt squares cut slightly larger than each card and instructed me to declare my forgiveness for each specific fact. Finally, I was to seal each forgiveness declaration by placing a piece of red felt over the top of the card, symbolizing the blood of Jesus and His ultimate sacrifice for the sake of our forgiveness. Hurt feelings sometimes don’t want to cooperate with
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