Morning Prayer, Monday, October 12, 2026 - WORD(S) OF THE DAY: DID YOU REALLY LET IT GO

Father God, what I don’t want to do is walk around holding hurt, anger and pain in my heart at the hands of someone else.  Amen

“[18] “Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history.”  (Isaiah 43;18b MSG)

“Holding onto grudges and anger is letting someone live rent-free in your head.  They moved on.  You didn’t.”  Has anyone ever wronged you, lied on you, mistreated you or stabbed you in the back and it caused deep hurt?  I hear people all the time say, “I’ve forgiven them but I will never forget what they did to me.”  For years, I agreed with that philosophy until I found myself smack dab in the middle of “I forgive them but . . .”  Someone said to me one day, “You haven’t forgiven them because every time someone brings up their name, you mention what they did to you.”  Well, I had not given much thought to the fact that this was happening.  I had to ask myself, “If I have forgiven them, when I tell the story of what they did to me do I sound like I am still mad?”  It was something to ponder.  I had to rethink it because when you come to terms with your true feelings, you realize that deep down inside you still have a little anger, or a little disappointment, or a little hurt about the whole situation.  It’s not easy to let go of what other people did to you especially if it hit deep.  You say that you have but when you speak their name, your countenance says something totally different.  I had to get to a point when someone really hurt or angered me to ask God to remove those emotions from my heart because doing it on my own was impossible.  “When you hold grudges, your hands are not free to catch blessings.”

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