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How to Forgive Someone Who Has Hurt You Deeply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtF3JpxVvEY

12.4 Let’s Practice

1. We need not wait for an apology to forgive. What does this mean?

2. How does forgiving positively affect our mental health?

3. How does forgiving positively impact our physical health?

4. What should be our motivation to forgive?

5-8. List four things that forgiveness is NOT.

9-11. Describe three things that forgiveness IS.

12-14. List three consequences of not forgiving.

12.5 Let’s Personalize this Lesson. . .
Choose your response:
How has your understanding of forgiveness changed after today’s reading? With this new
knowledge, take time to pray and ask God if there are people in your life who you need to
forgive, or if there are people you have wronged who you need to ask forgiveness from.

Or

Writer Anne Lamott says, “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.”
Explain what this means based on your reading about forgiveness.

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