When hurt runs deep, how does forgiveness begin?

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

The starting place is acknowledging I really was sinned against.

And it was a horrible thing.

And God agrees it was a horrible thing.

And yet God has mercy and grace for me to deal with that situation and to be able to extend

his mercy and grace into someone else's life.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Thursday, November 8th.

Music for Thursday, November 8th. How do you forgive when it seems impossible to forgive?

Nancy Lee DeMoss has written about this in the helpful book, Choosing Forgiveness.

When that book was released, she sat down with

her friend Lisa Barry to talk about it. We're going to listen to this practical conversation as we

focus on forgiveness this week. It's part of a series on personal revival called Seeking Him.

And now here's Lisa. Nancy, we're talking about choosing forgiveness.

By the way, thank you for writing such an insightful book. It's been just a delight to read it.

But as I'm reading it, I'm thinking to myself, in all of your travels and in all the people that

you've visited with, in all the places you've been, you thought to yourself, this book really needs to be written.

Can you paint a picture of what you've seen and what you've heard that made you think this is a major, major issue that needs to be discussed more surly than the way it has been discussed up until

this point. Yeah, Lisa, I think it's the result of years of being out doing women's conferences,

talking with women after the conferences, in between the sessions, and looking into these women's

eyes, hearing their stories, the stories of pain, of wounds,

of broken, fragmented relationships.

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