Do you have some advice for me about helping a person to consider forgiveness, when this person is adamantly against forgiving?

A key issue is this:  Has this person misunderstood what forgiveness is, equating it with: a) weakness, or b) excusing unjust behavior, or c) being open again to abuse, or d) automatically reconciling, or e) abandoning the quest for justice?  Any of these misconceptions can make a person hesitant to forgive.  Yet, the person is rejecting, not forgiveness itself, but a false form of it.  Your pointing out how forgiveness is none of those five issues above may make the person more receptive to the idea of forgiving.  It ultimately is that person’s choice to forgive or not once forgiveness is more deeply understood.

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