forgive the past

It’s a good idea.

that I have finally come to a point where I can say that I’ve accomplished this…at least as much so as I believe is possible. I’m sure from time to time small resentments will resurface and I will need to forgive again anew…but for now I feel free of those resentments.

but I know that with God’s help that it is acheivable. I continue to pray daily for a heart that is willing to forgive…and with some things it has already happened, but others still linger. I know that as long as I want it, that it will eventually come and that I just have to be patient and wait on God’s timing.

It might crop again one day but right now, I’m over it.

praying for help with this…but I can feel small amounts of progress. Thank you, God. I know that is only Him working on me…because I couldn’t even come close to accomplishing this one on my own!

to pray for my ‘enemies’. I have been praying lately for some of the people in my past which I still hold resentments against…asking God to give me forgiveness for them and asking God to bless their lives. It isn’t an easy prayer to pray when I have such feelings of anger and resentment in my heart…but I know that it is right to forgive for I have been forgiven and I also know that I don’t have it in me by myself to give that forgiveness…but I believe that if I continue to genuinely ask God for a heart that is willing to forgive that I will eventually be able to do so.

completly forgive myself for things in the past but also to fully forgive those who harmed me in the past. Even without this as a goal, I have made a lot of progress toward this over the last few weeks just as a part of some of the other things that I have been working on and through. I know that I still have some resentments both of self and others that I need to completely let go of, however, so I am going to make this a goal to itself and consciously work on it.

..so was wondering if I’d completed this.

Not exactly forgiven the past, I just haven’t really thought about it that much.

Hmmm, I need to evaluate how I feel about the past and then I decide if I’m over it or not.

And I will. But not right now, I’m busy.

Looks like this is going to be on my list for a while longer.

This is difficult for me. I’ve come to terms with things and realise that I can’t change them and should stop thinking about it, but i can’t just accept it and move on, in the end it still happened…

each person is the sum of thier memories. I don’t want to forget the past because very little unpleasant happened. i want to interpret the past better and accept that i have to take positives from it. i feel that everything is coming at once and i wish i could have had these experiences earlier. i can’t explain but i think this may help “too chaste an adolesence makes for a dissolute old age”- Andre Gide.