A man who was telling his friend about an argument he\u2019d had with his wife commented, \u201cOh, how I hate it, every time we have an argument; she gets historical.\u201d<\/p>\n
The friend replied, \u201cYou mean hysterical.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he insisted. \u201cI mean historical. Every time we argue she drags up everything from the past and holds it against me!\u201d517<\/p>\n
A friend of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, once reminded her of an especially cruel thing that had been done to her years before. But Miss Barton seemed not to recall it. \u201cDon\u2019t you remember it?\u201d her friend asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d came the reply, \u201cI distinctly remember forgetting it.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t be free and happy if you harbor grudges, so put them away. Get rid of them. Collect postage stamps, or collect coins, if you wish\u2014but don\u2019t collect grudges.518<\/p>\n
Prospero, when finally given a chance to punish those who had removed him of his rightful place as king, states, \u201cLet us not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that\u2019s gone\u201d (William Shakespeare, The Tempest<\/i>).519<\/p>\n
God is able to forget our past. Why can\u2019t we? God throws our sins into the depths of the sea and puts up a sign on the shore that reads, \u201cNo fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n
In ancient times the depths of the sea were completely inaccessible to us. The limits were how far a man could dive with one lungful of air. In modern times we have submarines that can go anywhere on or below the sea\u2019s surface, so we do not fully appreciate this figure of speech. Perhaps the inaccessible aspect would be clearer if we changed the statement to \u201cGod has cast all of our sins into a nuclear waste dump.\u201d That\u2019s truly inaccessible! And that\u2019s forgiveness!520<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man who was telling his friend about an argument he\u2019d had with his wife commented, \u201cOh, how I hate it, every time we have an argument; she gets historical.\u201d The friend replied, \u201cYou mean hysterical.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d he insisted. \u201cI mean historical. Every time we argue she drags up everything from the past and holds … Continue reading “FORGIVENESS, FORGETTING AND”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}