The past year and a half has been a trying time for families. With starkly differing political and religious beliefs intersecting with public health policy and social justice, it is hardly surprising that we are seeing more division in our world.
The desperate desire to be understood can make it hard to understand others whose beliefs contradict our own and stifles communication.
Forgiveness is often the furthest thing from our minds…
We buy into the myth that forgiveness has to be earned otherwise we are condoning the wrong that was done.
The trouble is that whether we are holding onto shame and guilt for something we have done or bitter resentment toward another for something they have done, we become prisoners of our own emotions.