Forgiveness & Facts

Can you forget the facts that caused you pain? Find out in this mini podcast on the topic of forgiveness.

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Transcript

Forgiveness & Facts

A lot’s been written about forgiveness.

What it is.
 How it mends fences.
 How it absolves guilt.

But there’s something forgiveness can never do. It can’t make facts disappear.

Whatever happened . . . happened.

The transgression is still in the case file, and it’s got plenty of facts to back it up. Those facts don’t age out. They don’t evaporate. They live on.

So that raises an honest question: How do you forgive if you’re never going to forget the facts?

Let’s put a pin in that and come back to it in a minute.

First, something important. Forgiveness is not a conscious act.

Saying “I forgive you” without actually feeling forgiveness in your heart? That’s just lip service. Nothing more.

Forgiveness—much like the Christian idea of grace—can’t be bought, bargained for, or willed into existence. You can’t force-feed it. If you try, it just won’t take.

I don’t know how to make forgiveness arrive.
I only know what seems to invite it in.

And that invitation is a single word:

Willingness.

The simple mantra “I am willing to have forgiveness arrive” is the invitation it’s attracted to. Willingness puts the feeler out there.

Now, how long forgiveness takes to show up?

No idea. There’s no stopwatch for this.

But the invitation has been sent. And my experience is this: the more willing you are, the quicker forgiveness seems to find you.

Still . . . the facts don’t change.

So does holding on to the facts keep forgiveness at bay? Yeah. It does.

But here’s the thing—nothing can erase the facts anyway. What forgiveness can do is render them irrelevant. It fades them into history and lets you move forward without dragging them behind you.

That’s why willingness matters so much.

Willingness gently sets the facts off to the side. And when forgiveness does arrive, it doesn’t argue with the facts—it dilutes their power.

So is this fact or fiction?

You’ll have to find out for yourself.

Give willingness, as the British say, a go, and attract that feeling that will make you glow: Forgiveness.

All the best,
 John