Forgiveness

Why is it so hard to forgive the people who you trust and love so much? Why is it so hard to forgive ourselves? Having a forgiving heart is a blessing, some people even have it as a spiritual gift.

3 Nephi 13:14-15

14 For, if ye ^aforgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you;

 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

 

Ouch that definitely puts motivation forward to want to forgive more freely. We all need forgiveness in our lives because we are all imperfect beings. I remember as a new mother to my first child, I would see something that I did not approve of that another mother of another child would be doing I would say ,"I will never do that". Only to find myself doing the exact thing I had said I wouldn't a couple days later. Realizing that we are all prone to make mistakes and several of them daily when we accept this we learn what it is like to walk in other people's shoes. And that makes it easier to see things through their eyes and so when they do something to hurt us we can say, "it's ok I forgive you".lds.org