You Only Have To Forgive Once
Over the holidays, I watched a beautiful movie entitled, The Light Between Oceans. In the movie, one of the characters states, and I paraphrase, “You only have to forgive once. To resent you have to do it all day, everyday. You have to think about and remember the bad things. It’s too much work.” When I heard these lines in the movie, I was immediately struck by their efficacy, as well as the salience of them in loving ourselves unconditionally. Holding onto grudges and griev