Forgiveness

Was talking with a friend today about forgiveness.

He asked "How do you forgive when you have been hurt so deeply?"

My initial repsonse was "I want to be like Jesus, so I follow His example and forgive."

As I have been thinking about it, it has really hit me how much Jesus gave up for me. He said I love you this much - then, with outstreched arms, he died, the story doesn't end there because He rose again.

Forgiveness is actually easy - I just think about all the things I have been forgiven of. There is no pain, no action, no words that cannot be forgiven when thought of in the light of the cross.

My friends, we are forgiven, we need only embrace it.