We often hear that it is necessary to forgive but to never forget. Which makes sense, but, according to me, if I don't forget, I haven't forgiven. It's there in my ego's hidey hole just waiting to attack...me. And there's the problem. Anything in my ego's hidey hole, with someone else's name on it, can and will do me a harm soon...however long "soon" takes.
The way to make not forgetting work for us is to find the good in that which we have forgiven...or think we have. Find God there. Whoever, whatever...realize that one as our angel for that's the one who drove us deeper, more wholly to God, than we were ever able to go before...without this specific aid.
Then when we remember that one...and remember we will...we remember with a grateful heart...grateful that we have a new way of seeing, believing, living today, and this is the one who helped lead us there. An angel unaware.
Thank you.
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