Chuck Bryant

You know, like, Oh yeah.

You can't, forgiveness is like from the heart.

If you really, if you're hanging on to something, then you're not done with it yet.

No, but so, and that is so important, Chuck, that's important for the individual to remember that,

That if you are unable to forgive, that means that you're still hanging on to it.

That doesn't mean you'll never forgive.

And that also doesn't mean you have to hurry up and forgive.

It means you're still in the process of reaching the point where you can forgive.

It's a deliberate choice from everything I've seen in the research.

You are making a deliberate choice to forgive somebody, but it's not throwing a switch.

It's part of a process.

And during that process, while you're on the road to forgiving the person, you're still going to be kind of angry at them.

Maybe not the whole time, but every once in a while it might hit you before you've fully forgiven them, and then you're going to be mad about it all over again.

That's okay.

That's normal.

That's natural.

You can't really rush it.

You can, but it's going to be detrimental.

What you want to do is just kind of let it play out and have faith that if you're on the path to forgiveness, you ultimately will forgive the person and things will be good again.

Yeah, and depending on your life and your childhood, like,