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| Forgiving Yourself
A mentally healthy and stable person must get to the place where he or she says: “That’s it. I’m not going to wallow in my sin or wrong or pain anymore. I hate myself for what I did, but I’ve got to move on."
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| Is poetic justice so horrible?
"If I hate the person for what he's done, surely my loving, just god will hate him as well." This kind of thinking steers off the spiritual norm and veers into a kind of theological schizophrenia.
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| Keeping the Faith
A daughter's senseless and violent death provides the setting for an incredible demonstration of God's grace.
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| Radical Forgiveness
It was an extraordinary act of forgiveness that continues to be extremely rare--if not unheard of--on the world stage and one I don’t remember nearly enough in my own life.
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| How to find forgiveness for the costliest of mistakes
In cases involving serious injury or death, most families long to hear 'I'm sorry.'
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| '... As we forgive our debtors'
Can the true spirit of debt forgiveness be fulfilled if strings are attached by the creditor?
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| Making Amends
What do you do when you have hurt another human being? Do you ignore the offense, and hope that the injured party will forget about it? Do you minimize the hurt, or do you overdo the apologies? Do you make excuses or do you over-explain why you did what you did?
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| Forgiving, Even if Not Forgetting
What happens when a perpetrator seeking forgiveness meets a victim seeking justice? Is it possible for both to meet and acknowledge the equal validity of their seemingly irreconcilable pursuits?
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| Timothy McVeigh Killed My Daughter
Ten years ago this spring, Bud Welch lost his only daughter in the Oklahoma City Bombing. Today he and Timothy McVeigh's father are friends.
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| How a bullet led to the unlikeliest of friendships
"You better pray before you die," said the skinny young thug, as he jabbed his gun against the head of an off-duty policeman.
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| Giving Children the Gift of Forgiveness
I hadn't been to summer camp in twenty years, but the minute I got out of the car and smelled the pine-needle perfumed air, I was overwhelmed with memories. The green wooden cabins were just as I remembered them, albeit smaller.
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| Then What Is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness is not finally complete until the severed friendship is mended. And the new weld of forgiveness should afterward result in a deeper, stronger union than existed before!
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| The Things We Dare Not Remember
Holding guilt, resentment, and painful memories under the surface of our lives is like holding a beach ball under water in the deep end of a swimming pool. All our energy is consumed by the heaviness of what we?re holding under the surface.
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| No Regrets
A friend strugges to forgive an ex-lover on her deathbed. Article was added to FaithandValues.com in July 2004.
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| Crime & forgiveness
Most of us like to believe that every human being deserves a chance at redemption. But are some crimes so dark that forgiveness can never be earned?
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