ITL292: The Important Difference Between Forgiveness and Trust
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we answer a listener's question on the relationship between forgiveness and trust.
Forgiveness has the power to either bind or release a family, business, or relationship.
- Forgiveness means more to the forgiver than to the person being forgiven.
- In order to forgive someone, they don't have to ask for it, deserve it, or even be aware you're forgiving them.
- Forgiveness is a decision, not an emotion.
- People can sense bitterness, and they won't remain around it for long.
Forgiveness is about the past—trust is about the future.
- You can forgive somebody who wrongs you even if you don't trust them anymore.
- Someone can prove himself trustworthy again by not making the same mistakes.
Tune in to hear the Bible passage that shaped Andy's view on forgiveness.
You can also hear more from Andy by subscribing to his new podcast, The Professional Noticer. Just go to AndyAndrews.com/podcast for details.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Thanks for being with us once again. |
| 0:19.7 | And Andy, as always, thank you for being with us. |
| 0:21.8 | How are you today? I'm doing great. You and Matt doing good? Yeah, everything here is great. The team is |
| 0:27.8 | everybody's doing fine. We're enjoying the summer. You know, there is one thing that happened. I don't know |
| 0:32.8 | if you heard about this, but, you know, our office is here in Franklin, just south of Nashville, |
| 0:37.4 | Tennessee, |
| 0:37.9 | and we work. I did hear about that. I did hear you had an office there. Right. We work from |
| 0:43.9 | Robert's house, your manager, Robert D. Smith, the Robert D. We work from his house a few days a week, |
| 0:49.6 | and a giant tree that has been right next to his driveway for forever. |
| 0:55.5 | It fell over and blocked the entire driveway recently. |
| 0:59.8 | Did you hear about this? |
| 1:01.7 | I did. |
| 1:02.5 | Is that amazing? |
| 1:03.6 | That tree is huge. |
| 1:05.2 | It's unbelievable. |
| 1:06.5 | It's absolutely gigantic. |
| 1:08.2 | They had to call a special team of people out not to remove the tree |
| 1:12.4 | just to actually cut it away from the driveway so that cars could actually get in and out. |
| 1:18.8 | And so the tree is still laying there. It's just the driveway portion is now open. But, |
| 1:25.1 | you know, it's crazy the things that happen in a random sequence, but a lot of the guys were sitting here thinking, I wonder if Andy could do anything with some of this wood. So would you have any interest in getting some of this wood from this tree? |
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