Forgiveness
Many a sermon has been on the difficult topic of forgiveness or rather learning to forgive others. However, I have learned that the one person I needed to forgive the most is myself. After all, how can I love myself if I cannot forgive even the smallest thing that God forgives.
Throughout my journey to healing from my past, I have struggled with getting over how weak I was, even though I was a child at the time. I still find things I wish I could change. But these grudges that I held against myself really held me back in my relationship with God.
Here are a few tips to forgiving yourself.
1. Acknowledge what you hold against yourself. Put it into perspective with the situation or time. Is this something you could have helped?
2. Own it. Even if it is something trivial, own what you struggle to forgive. Perhaps it is a matter of feeling you should have been nicer to someone or you think you failed someone else or yourself.
3. Be gracious. Everyone makes mistakes. You must be gracious with yourself and learn to forgive and move on.
In the end, the past is the past, the future a mystery. Live in the present regret free.
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