The choice to be free

I was reminded recently about where the power of forgiveness truly resides.

Forgiveness is about you, not the other person. It's exercised for the sole purpose to give yourself permission to let go. It's a choice we make that says we are ready to love again, and be loved. That by letting the other person go, we ourselves become free.

It’s not about forgetting the hurt. It’s about how that hurt is incorporated as part of your story. But it doesn’t have to be your whole story. You decide whether it gets to be one chapter, or one paragraph, or one line, in the memoir you are writing that is your life.