From Kathleen Love

The role of forgiveness:

Knowing whether you can forgive someone but not forget what they did to you was the subject that caught my attention. Reason being because I believe that you can always and should always forgive them for what they did, but certainly don’t forget what they did to you and how they betrayed you. I started thinking that you should keep awareness about what happened to you and never let anything like that happen to you again because the next time this happens to you it will be your fault. I have experienced many relationship mishaps in my life, just as a high school student and for one thing, I have defiantly learned my lesson about forgiving people. I use to forgive and try to forget everything that anyone did wrong to me and try to put all of it aside and be friends with them again, but after the fifth time of taking the blame for conflicts in our relationship when I wasn’t in the wrong, it gets to be exhausting. Everything that Reverend Mark Holland was saying to me about forgiveness just clicked with me because even though we haven’t gone through the exact same struggles, he understands how it feels to be betrayed and then not want to lose that friend in the process. I think that he is defiantly a better person than I am in the sense that he gave that man recommendations for another job and proceeded to forgive him, and my goal is to work in order to be able to do just as he did.