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Forgiving What You Can’t Forget :: Lysa TerKeurst [Ep 304]

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever find yourself replaying and reliving the details of the deepest hurt in your life? My guest today has endured a devastating, public heartbreak – and she has wrestled with the lingering,unresolved pain which followed. Author and speaker Lysa TerKeurst joins me to share part of her journey of learning to forgive what you can’t forget.

“I don't want to make this sound more clean and pretty than it actually was. It was hard. It was horrific. It was terrible. And walking out something as devastating as an affair in a marriage created tremendous burden and tremendous hardship. But I will say that one commitment that I made that was really important was that I can feel hurt, but I don't have to choose to live hurt. Or perpetuate that hurt into other people.”

Lysa shares vulnerably and offers advice for anyone who feels stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain. We talk about the huge help a Christian counselor has been both for Lysa and her children throughout this process and how she delved into what the Bible really says about forgiveness.

“The Bible never says that people have to forgive and forget. It actually says quite the opposite. If we can be healed of it, it is actually beneficial not to forget because it becomes a testimony that can be used in powerful ways. And that's part of the good that God can bring in our story. I think how we know that we are experiencing healing is the way that we tell the stories of our lives.”

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Delt Mom Alone podcast.

0:10.7

I am your host, Heather McFadden, and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside

0:15.2

you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:22.0

In this episode, number 304, I've invited back on the show, Lisa Tercurs.

0:28.3

A quote that I wrote not in this recent book, but in a previous book, but I still quote

0:34.2

it to myself often is my feelings are indicators, but should never be dictators.

0:40.8

In other words, our feelings indicate what we're facing and what needs to be addressed,

0:47.4

but our feelings should never dictate how we act and how we react.

0:51.5

So you know, again, I don't want to make this sound more tidy and more clean and pretty

0:58.0

than it actually was.

0:59.4

It was hard.

1:00.4

It was horrific.

1:01.4

It was terrible.

1:03.2

And walking out something as devastating as an affair and a marriage and the kids all

1:12.2

being well aware that something was wrong even before they knew all the facts about what

1:18.4

was wrong.

1:19.7

It created tremendous burden and tremendous hardship.

1:25.4

And so you know, don't want to make it sound more tidy than it is, but I will say that

1:31.8

one commitment that I made that was really important was that I can feel hurt, but I don't

1:38.8

have to choose to live hurt and perpetuating that hurt and other people.

1:45.7

Lisa is a New York Times best-selling author speaker.

1:49.1

She founded the Proverbs 31 ministry.

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