Here is a quote form Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
Then I realized something: That last thought had brought no sting with it. Closing Sohrab’s door, I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
What do you think? Forgiveness- is it a momentary epiphany or is it a slipping away unannounced experience?
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it is both.
it is also wrestling and sweating and working.
I do know that forgiveness is a choice that you have to make over and over again. It is such a difficult thing to put into practice as a discipline in your daily life. JAT, very well put. You know it is a big deal because it is so huge when somebody gives forgiveness to you.
Good book. Intense. Disturbing. But Good.
Seriously, why does Jesus have to go off making crazy comments about forgiving enemies? :)
I think it can be one or the other for each person or each situation.
For some, it's when the light bulb goes off and one realizes forgiveness is not really about anyone else. it is about ourself; for our own good to forgive. To live with bitterness in your heart is binding and stifling. it that moment of clarify one resolves to let go of bitterness and forgive.
For others, time heals the pain and hurt, and forgiveness comes along.
Maybe the degree of damage or deepness of the pain affects how forgiveness comes.
OK, so can you tell that I have thought about this alot?
For me its a daily wrestling or discipline of taking captive every thought and making them obedient to Christ.
It's alot easier to talk about forgiveness than to live it out. But my experience goes along w/ you Heather, bitterness is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to get sick.
I don't know the context of the quotation, but I think it changes the question quite a bit to ask whether it is I who is forgiving someone, or someone forgiving me.
Does the forgiveness of God comes to us like an epiphany, or is it a process of realization?
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