Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again

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I also think working through Celebrate Recovery's workbooks makes most other reading materials on forgiveness and amends feel a bit more cake. But in surprising ways, she's discovered how to let go of bound-up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren't willing to make things right. goodness, there are too many quotes and insights to share, I can't choose only a few for this review. In reality, though, it was a thief in disguise, out to steal every bit of closeness between me and those I love. I mean I could have figured that out by googling the author, but I didn’t I just downloaded it and started reading.

The biggest thing that makes Lysa Terkeurst’s writing so impactful is that she counters all of my own thoughts before I had time to think them. When your heart has been shattered and reshaped into something that doesn’t quite feel normal inside your own chest yet, forgiveness feels a bit unrealistic.The book arrived in a bubble-wrapped package and I must say, I'm thankful for how well-protected the it is. Her advice involves “collecting the dots” (knowing one’s story), “connecting the dots” (understanding the past and how it influences the present), and “correcting the dots” (changing perceptions to see things differently). Her story moved me in such a way that I’m now recounting my own hurts and finding them like tiny pieces of dust I can sweep away with a cloth. Adding humility into the situation acknowledges the unfairness I have felt but affirms a trust in God to do what He needs to both in their hearts and mine.

I purchased FWYCF a couple of years ago, but didn’t get around to reading it until recently when my church had a women’s Bible study on it. Wrongs we deem were never made right are incredibly stealthy in their ability to sit, quietly seething, until that one more wrong done to us gives them permission to finally scream. Discover what the Bible really says about forgiveness and the peace that comes from living it out right now.

Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them. Terkheurst also did an impeccable job explaining that forgiveness of an Act happens once - what happens over and over again is forgiveness of the Impact of the act. TerKeurst’s fans will love this stirring, realistic look at confronting the arduous aspects of forgiveness.

Lysa TerKeurst is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times best-selling author of Univited, The Best Yes, Unglued, Made to Crave, and 18 other books. Forgiveness releases to the Lord your need for them to be punished or corrected, giving it to the only One who can do this with right measures of justice and mercy.

Bestseller TerKeurst ( It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way), president of Proverbs 31 Ministries, again plumbs the depths of her heartbreak to help readers through the difficulties of forgiveness in this excellent, revealing rumination.

This truly is possible, but only if we surrender our offenses daily, keep our hearts swept clean of bitterness, and remain humble even when we are hurt. Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? At times, it was helpful and enlightening as she used scripture and biblical stories to illustrate her topic. New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst helps readers address how to stop suffering from what others have done to them while exploring what forgiveness is, what it isn't, and how to deal with difficult relationships. I’m not sure how to properly describe it, except to say on different days it crept up with varying personas that seemed to hold me together and rip me apart simultaneously.My ability to heal cannot be conditional on the other person receiving adequate consequences for their disobedience but only on my obedience to trust God's justice whether I ever see it or not. Additionally, she has appeared on the Today Show as one of the leading voices in the Christian community. I’m afraid forgiveness will give them false hope that I want to reestablish the relationship, but I don’t.