"When Forgiveness Feels Unfair" With Lysa TerKeurst
The Proverbs 31 Ministries Podcast
Proverbs 31 Ministries
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Forgiveness can sometimes feel like an unfair gift we have to give someone else. But what if it's actually God's prescription for our own hearts to heal?
In this deeply personal episode, Lysa TerKeurst opens up about what it really looks like to practice forgiveness when it seems undeserved or out of reach. With honesty and tenderness, she shares insights from her own journey, offering practical guidance on processing pain, naming your hurt, and choosing obedience to God even when your heart hasn’t caught up yet.
Through this conversation, you'll learn:
- What biblical forgiveness is and what it isn't.
- Ways to handle real struggles: from navigating personal betrayals to extending grace when someone has hurt your child.
- How letting go doesn’t mean letting someone keep hurting you.
Resources From This Episode:
- Surviving an Unwanted Divorce by Lysa TerKeurst, counselor Jim Cress, and Dr. Joel Muddamalle.
- The Therapy & Theology Podcast, Season 10, with Lysa TerKeurst, Jim Cress, and Dr. Joel Muddamalle.
- Click here to download a transcript of this episode
Want More on This Topic?
- Watch the Therapy & Theology video on YouTube titled "How To Forgive When the Hurt Was So Unfair."
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are proud to partner with Convoy of Hope to sponsor today's episode of the Proverbs 31 Ministries podcast. For over 30 years, Convoy of Hope has helped vulnerable communities around the world and empowering women and girls is a key part of that mission. Convoy of Hope partners with women so they can start their own businesses to better support themselves and their families. They also help young girls realize their worth and find their voices, because when women are empowered, |
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| 0:48.8 | Hi friends. Thanks for tuning in to the Proverbs 31 Ministries podcast where we share biblical |
| 0:53.0 | truth for any girl and any season. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm your host, Meredith, Brock, and I'm here today with my co-host, Shay Hill. Meredith, I love, anytime I get to be with you on the Proverbs 31 Ministries podcast. And today you guys are in for such a treat. We have Lisa on the show, and she's going to be talking about forgiveness. and before you, you know, change the episode, |
| 1:12.0 | because I would not be excited to maybe to be talking about forgiveness. And before you, you know, change the |
| 1:11.6 | episode because I would not be excited to maybe hear an episode on forgiveness today. Listen, |
| 1:15.4 | I want you to know that we're going to lead with such transparency and we're going to lead |
| 1:20.0 | with some really honest confessions of where we struggle with this topic and not even talk about |
| 1:24.8 | the necessarily like the how to of forgiveness, but just a reminder of why |
| 1:29.9 | God even gives us this gift and this pathway to heal our hurts. |
| 1:35.0 | That's right, Shea. I'll be honest. I may be overshared. |
| 1:39.7 | Never. Not here. We're all friends here, you know. |
| 1:43.8 | But we talked through a real-time thing that I'm |
| 1:46.2 | facing and I just hope that it helps some of our listeners. This episode was really inspired by |
| 1:53.0 | Lisa's most recent book, Surviving an Unwanted Divorce. And we do talk about that a good bit on |
| 1:57.8 | the podcast today. But if that is a topic that you are wrestling with |
| 2:02.8 | specifically, if you're wrestling with divorce or the death of your marriage, I want to invite |
| 2:09.0 | you to head on over to the Therapy and Theology podcast, Season 10, where you can hear even more |
| 2:14.3 | about that and listen to Lisa, Jim, and Joel really wrestle through |
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