When you forgive somebody, it’s not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from that. And you need to rise above that.

God is so good to give us new days and New Years since He knows we need so many times to start over.

You’re trying to carry everything in your life by yourself. And you are falling under the weight of it but that was never God’s intention. He doesn’t want you to carry it yourself. You can’t do it, only God can do that. And that’s what he says, he says: “I never meant for you to go throught this by yourself. I wanna go throught it with you. I wanna carry it for you.

My orphan heart thought love was to complete someone else and to be completed by them. I didn’t understand that when two people who aren’t whole try to complete each other they both end up with less than when they started. I didn’t understand that the only one who can make a person whole is God.

Freedom is to forgive one another for a perceived wrongdoing

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.