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You've heard this saying, forgive and forget, right? Well, Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth cautions us against

the forgetting part. If you and I could not remember any of the pain that we've experienced,

how in the world could we have mercy and be tender-hearted toward hurting people?

You see, the pain of my past can be actually a means of my extending grace and mercy and kindness to hurting people.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamov, author of Choosing Forgiveness.

For July 14th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music 2022. I'm Dana Gresh. Have you ever watched children learn to swim?

Some kids start doggie paddling right away, but others cling to the edge of the pool,

too afraid to let go.

Well, in the same way, some of us are hanging onto old

hurts by refusing to forgive. We're missing out on the freedom we can have in Christ.

Let's join Nancy DeMoss-Walgamu that she encourages us to dive in and experience the joy

of forgiveness. We've been talking about the whole subject of forgiveness.

And just before this session, someone pointed out to me that there's a whiteboard behind me

that has an eraser on it that says, erase all.

And what a picture that is of forgiveness.

We've talked about pressing the delete button on our computers and how that's a picture

of our choice to clear the record of our offenders, and that we need to choose as an act of our

will to fully forgive those who have sinned against us. When we choose to forgive, not only are we

releasing those that we may have held hostage,

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