{"id":312,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:46:47","slug":"forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The weak can never forgive.
\nForgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“But, can the strong allow the others
\nto forget that he\/she forgave them?”
\n(Mahatma Gandhi)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Forgiveness is a decision to release feelings of resentment & revenge. The offensive act may always remain a part of your life, but forgiveness can lessen its grip on you.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Forgiveness doesn’t minimize or justify the wrong. You can forgive someone without excusing the act. Forgiveness brings a kind of peace that helps you go on with life. By embracing forgiveness, you embrace peace and joy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is important to recognize that your current distress is coming from the hurt feelings, thoughts and physical upset you are suffering NOW, not what offended you 5 minutes or 5 years ago. Research has shown that people who are unjustly hurt by others can heal emotionally and, in some cases, physically by forgiving their offender.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can never live in the present and create a new and exciting future if you always stay stuck in the past.<\/span><\/span> Forgiveness can even lead to feelings of understanding, empathy and compassion for the one who hurt you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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After Jesus the Christ forgave St. Peter<\/span><\/a> for denying thrice his relationship with the man Jesus, Peter realized that Forgiveness has to be the cornerstone upon which he had to build the Christian Church.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

read more …<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” “But, can the strong allow the others to forget that he\/she forgave them?” (Mahatma Gandhi) Forgiveness is a decision to release feelings of resentment & revenge. The offensive act may always remain a part of your life, but forgiveness can lessen its grip…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}