"I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you." In his book, The Shack, William Paul Young says that repeating this phrase helps embody it, and saying it hundreds of times the first day…and the second day…and the third…eventually brings it home. You do forgive.

"I forgive you." In forgiveness is release, wholeness and freedom.

Think of someone you tell yourself you can not or will not forgive. Imagine the freedom of no longer judging that person. Imagine the freedom of no longer needing to be righter than they are, or better than they are. Imagine the freedom of no longer needing to be anything. Just imagine…

I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you.

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