This is what I saw in my counseling room last week: roommates exasperated by each other’s selfishness, a wife embittered by her husband’s continued use of porn, a husband defeated by his own anger, grown children wrecked by their parents’ divorce, and a young woman recovering from past physical abuse. In just one week of counseling, I observed vastly different circumstances lead to astonishingly similar outcomes. Seven people were mad. Seven people were hurt. Seven people needed to forgive, or they would only grow increasingly mad and hurt. Yet all seven people struggled to forgive. Continue Reading →
This is what I saw in my counseling room last week: roommates exasperated by each other’s selfishness, a wife embittered by her husband’s continued use of porn, a husband defeated by his own anger, grown children wrecked by their parents’ divorce, and a young woman recovering from past physical abuse. In just one week of counseling, I observed vastly different circumstances lead to astonishingly similar outcomes. Seven people were mad. Seven people were hurt. Seven people needed to forgive, or they would only grow increasingly mad and hurt. Yet all seven people struggled to forgive. Continue Reading →