Letting Go of Bad Things that Happen, Part 2 (TMF:2352)

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Peace to Live By: Letting Go of Bad Things that Happen, Part 2 (TMF:2352) - Daniel Litton
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       One thing I think that can help a person overcome holding onto things is the understanding that, in the instance where someone has hurt them, perhaps the other person really didn’t mean to. Perhaps they were just doing what they ‘believed’ was the right course of action at the moment. Later, it turns out, they were wrong. That being the case, we can choose to focus on their initial belief and see that they really weren’t trying to cause us harm. There have been times we thought we were doing right in something and later it turned out to be incorrect in our thinking. So, why can’t we see and understand that other people will probably do this to? I mean, if we’ve done it, couldn’t it be possible that that’s what happened with them? Here is a hard truth. It’s not that we cannot forgive a person for a wrong, or forget a bad event that has happened, it’s that we are really choosing not to. I mean, let’s take an example. We know that Peter denied Jesus three times at the moment he needed Peter most. If there was any moment in Jesus’ friendship where he needed Peter the most, it was at the moment he got arrested.