Forgiveness is not the same as reconciliation.
The book makes room for boundaries.
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Forgiving What You Can't Forget
7 memorable lines from Forgiving What You Can't Forget by Lysa TerKeurst, each with the idea behind it.
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Pain needs truthful language before it can become release.
Minimizing delays healing.
Grief is part of forgiveness because something real was lost.
Release does not skip mourning.
A boundary protects the future from becoming a repeat of the past.
Love can still have limits.
Anger can reveal a violated value before it becomes a cage.
The emotion has information.
Healing often means surrendering the fantasy of a different past.
Acceptance is not approval.
Freedom grows when the offender no longer narrates every inner room.
The memory loses authority.
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