Forgiveness...

I've been thinking a lot about forgiveness lately.

I've had to ask for forgiveness a lot of times in my life

because you see I make lots of mistakes

and I hurt people unintentionally.

It's scary apologizing to someone you love and asking them to forgive you.

But when they offer that forgiveness freely

the feeling is unexplainable.

There's also been a few times when people have sought my forgiveness

and giving it to them is a beautiful thing!

I've also learned that sometimes you have to remind yourself that you forgave them

and even do it again.

But what I'm really wondering about;

what has my mind all muddled is...

What do you do when someone has hurt you but doesn't apologize

and more importantly, doesn't ask for forgiveness.

Hmmmmm.

I believe that God wants us to forgive them anyway

but is it just me or does that seem harder to do when they don't fess up to what they've done?