And they are all negative. Forgiveness is not easy. Forgiveness is not forgetting. Forgiveness does not overlook evil. Forgiveness is not destructive, and Forgiveness is not the same thing as approval.
People are always larger and they are more than their mistakes or their wrongdoings.
In other words, I don't define somebody and who they are by something they said to me. They are bigger than that. Forgiveness is based on recognizing and admitting that people are always bigger and more than their faults and their mistakes. Forgiveness is willing to allow a person who has offended us to start over again. I will never let that happen.