Such a moving post, thanks Rhapsody for posting this. I truly believe that not forgiving, even the worse of pains, can be like holding a rattle snake around your neck...it literally sucks the life out of you....it's sadly such a waste of consumed time and energy.

I do have my difficulties forgiving people in my life, especially the most recent pains. I really have been working, slowly but surely, forgiving my Dad for giving up on me and banning me from his home because he considered me evil. I just began forgiving my Mom for doing what she did to my terminally ill Grandmother while she was in her care. I'm still working on her abandoning us when I was 14 and taking 7,500 grand from my sister and I after our Grandmother passed.

It's very hard to forgive people who have hurt you, but I feel for one's own sake, they would benefit from forgiving everybody, including themselves.

Thanks for this post.