By Harold and Bette Gillogly Feelings of forgiveness do not happen in a vacuum.  We don’t wake up one morning and say, “I’m not going to feel resentment toward that person who hurt me anymore.” Shazam!  Nope.  Doesn’t happen that way. Our emotions change as we change our behavior.  We can’t simply say.  We have to do.  Jesus Himself tells us the secret of feeling forgiveness.  He said, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those... Read more →

By Harold and Bette Gillogly We talked about the first kind of forgiveness in our last two blogs: “to cancel a debt, to pardon.”  Today we’re going to explore the second kind, and we want to warn you, this one is harder than the first. The second kind of forgiveness means “to relinquish resentment against your debtor.”  Canceling someone’s debt against you is hard enough, but how do you cancel a feeling? To relinquish resentment against someone who hurt you? ... Read more →