This eight week intense summer challenge is not for the faint of heart. This challenge is for Catholic women who want to get FIT this summer while growing in Holiness. Let’s face it, getting healthy and growing in holiness go hand-in-hand and it’s always more fun and motivating to do it with others. Not to mention that a little friendly competition never hurts either!
So ladies .....................are you up for the challenge?
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
The forgiveness portion of this week's challenge is being rather difficult. It is so much easier to forgive someone who hurts you rather than someone who hurts your children.
Pat, I so agree with you! What have heard about forgiveness is that it is similar to love in the sense that it's a decision we make that may or may not be accompanied by the FEELINGS of forgiveness. Okay, this makes perfect sense to me, but being the human that I am, I find myself saying that I forgive someone, but I constantly revisit the memory of how that person hurt me (or someone I love)...I may even stoop so low as to share this hurt with other people--like I'm trying to get them to agree with my justification for being hurt. THAT, I'm pretty sure, is NOT forgiveness, even if I say the words "I forgive you." Forgive and forget is very hard in practice.
Pat,
ReplyDeleteI so agree with you! What have heard about forgiveness is that it is similar to love in the sense that it's a decision we make that may or may not be accompanied by the FEELINGS of forgiveness. Okay, this makes perfect sense to me, but being the human that I am, I find myself saying that I forgive someone, but I constantly revisit the memory of how that person hurt me (or someone I love)...I may even stoop so low as to share this hurt with other people--like I'm trying to get them to agree with my justification for being hurt. THAT, I'm pretty sure, is NOT forgiveness, even if I say the words "I forgive you." Forgive and forget is very hard in practice.
Exactly!
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