Topic: How Forgiveness Can Help Us Take Charge

What kinds of people, things, and situations upset you? Do you think people who are wrong, incorrect, or misguided need to be straightened out? Is your anger at people who are wrong, incorrect, or misguided justified? Can you choose your thoughts and feelings when you think about people who are wrong, incorrect, or misguided? Do memories nag at you and make you mad or angry? Do people make you mad or angry? Are you severely critical and condemning toward others? Do you have a hard time admitting you are wrong? Do you remind other people of times they have made mistakes, of times they are thoughtless, or times they have needed correction? If you answered "yes" to some of these questions and if you look within your life, you may find you do not control some of the feelings and the thoughts you experience when thinking about others. If you answered "yes" to some of these questions, then you can gain more control over your life and heart by being forgiving. When you are truly forgiving, you are truly a person with a forgiving heart. When you have a forgiving heart and another person does something you might think is wrong, incorrect, or misguided, your forgiving heart blots out the other person's behavior. When you have a forgiving heart, you have peace. With peace, love has a chance to grow.

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