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I am so aware of a couple of people I haven't forgiven. It's um I cannot talk about

this topic of forgiveness without just immediately in my mind going to, you know, Bill and Jerry and

and how they attacked me and how they in a season in my life I think I was kind of in my prime with God and for God. Just hurled at me accusations and judgments and did things that were an attempt to expose me as a failure and to take me down.

And John there's this there's this abiding sense that I haven't forgiven them and I don't know really how to. I mean it's we're talking years ago. We're talking decades ago that

they did this and when you talk about forgiveness, immediately, their pictures, what they did come up.

And it's like, I think I'm every man here in terms of saying I'd really like God to address that part of my

soul spirit and if there's bitterness, hatred, unforgiveness, I'd love for him to come into that and change it, but it doesn't

feel like either I know how or he has. And I'm like the listeners here speak to me about forgiveness. What do I do with this? Where do I go?

Friends, welcome to the on Relating, Relationships, the Series is on Relating, loving well, learning to love better than we do,

believing that the greatest impact we will ever have in the world apart from you know our gifting or phenomenal works of

God the greatest impact you'll have in the world is your relationship is your

greatest legacy.

And we got into this series and realized,

whoa, like we can't go forward without addressing forgiveness.

We got all these other things we want to talk about, but we've got to get forgiveness

at least into the framework here because it's in the way of us loving well. So welcome to kind of a part two on forgiveness here.

There's a couple things I want to say right out of the gate today

that I think will help people. First off, forgiving is not feeling forgiving. You

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