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"Get Over it.” “Forgive and forget.””I will forgive but I won’t ever forget.” None of these statements is kind, but probably you have said or wanted to say it to yourself or someone else. When want to get over a hurt, it would be easiest just put away the past, forgive and forget...But none of this is actual forgiveness.. nor is it needed. In the scripture from Ephesians, we may glance at this and think that the writer Paul makes forgiveness seem easy..Just be kind. Just forg

This scripture from Matthew chapter 6 can be very difficult to understand. Jesus says that God will forgive us only in so far as we forgive others. A cruel depiction of God as a withholding father? One who has pre-determined how much forgiveness to dole out based on how much or how little forgiveness we have shared? For victims of crime, abuse, neglect.. this scripture can really hurt us... if we think that it is a picture of God who re-victimizes the victim. Rather than hear