This is really helpful! Truly! I like your opening comment that we heal by going through our suffering and pain not by going around it or trying to escale it. I am paraphrasing you, so forgive me if I didn't word it quite right. This reflection also made me keenly aware that I need to stop blaming myself and to forgive myself. I am going to work on that.
Self-forgiveness is so incredibly crucial -- and so incredibly difficult! For me, this is the most difficult thing of all. I like what Neal Lozano has to say in his book, UNBOUND: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DELIVERANCE:
"To forgive yourself is simply a declaration that you are in agreement with God, that you will not hold yourself to higher standards than God, and you will not demand of yourself more than He does. We forgive ourselves the same way God does, on the basis of the mercy poured out in Jesus."
This is really helpful! Truly! I like your opening comment that we heal by going through our suffering and pain not by going around it or trying to escale it. I am paraphrasing you, so forgive me if I didn't word it quite right. This reflection also made me keenly aware that I need to stop blaming myself and to forgive myself. I am going to work on that.
Self-forgiveness is so incredibly crucial -- and so incredibly difficult! For me, this is the most difficult thing of all. I like what Neal Lozano has to say in his book, UNBOUND: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DELIVERANCE:
"To forgive yourself is simply a declaration that you are in agreement with God, that you will not hold yourself to higher standards than God, and you will not demand of yourself more than He does. We forgive ourselves the same way God does, on the basis of the mercy poured out in Jesus."
Excellent! This comment helps too!