According to Dr. McMillan, the failure to possess a spirit of forgiveness makes us susceptible to many diseases of body and mind. Because we cannot resist the temptation to get even, we pay the high price of a pound of our own flesh. Toxic goiter, strokes of apoplexy, heart attacks, high blood pressure, ulcers and many other serious ailments afflict millions of people, and often it's a direct result of the inability to forgive. Too often, it is exactly that.
Life is made up of hurts and conflicts, which arise daily in our personal relationships.
It is only the unresolved conflicts, the harboring of grudges and resentments, which wreak havoc on spirit and mind and finally upon flesh. Every unresolved conflict produces its own wound. If the scar tissue isn't planted somewhere upon or within the body, then it is hidden inside the heart. And, of course, they pay the penalty in arrested development, in stunted personalities, in narrowed wisdom, in limited lives. No one ever parks in life without paying a price.