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Originally Posted by mizpeh
God binds up the brokenhearted.
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Sure He does. But there are things that we need to do, too, to heal. And generally the answer is not the pat, "forgive and forget" or "just get over it."
I have a book about forgiveness. Very well written. And it speaks very deliberately against "forgive and forget". Because if we just forget and go on with a person as though nothing happened, and they did something deliberately to hurt, we are enabling them to hurt us again, and to hurt others as well. On the other hand, there is a Biblical way to forgive that has nothing to do with forgetting, but more to do with letting go of our right to be bitter and/or vengeful about what a person did.
I can be angry about what someone did, I can be upset, I can cry and grieve a loss of innocence and trust toward someone... all without being unforgiving.