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

The ability to see beautiful again is what I want for you and for me. Forgiveness is the weapon. Our choices moving forward are the battlefield. Moving on is the journey. Being released from that heavy feeling is the reward. Regaining the possibility of trust and closeness is the sweet victory. And walking confidently with the Lord from hurt to healing is the freedom that awaits.

Unresolved issues and undealt-with wounds make people say and do things that can hurt.

What hurt might my offender have suffered that would have led them to do what they did? Can I have compassion for the offender’s brokenness?

There is nothing more powerful than a person living what God’s Word teaches.

maybe it’s not what God is working on but how God is working in us that matters most of all.

And they were made to feel like a fool when the trust they gave as a gift was trampled and shattered.

Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. (1 John 2:3, 6, 9–10) And when we pray, we are to check our hearts for grudges and keep them clean with forgiveness.

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.