Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve

This is one of the best books I have read on forgiveness. He separates forgiveness from restoration, and makes it clear that forgiving is not forgetting, but seeing clearly and honestly.

Best spiritual book I have ever read on the topic of forgiveness of terrible wrongs even evil done to us. He even has a chapter entitled ' Monsters ', so it is a book that does not sugar coat the evils and awful things people do and say to one another, including children. Highly recommended.
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What a great book on a subject most people avoid! I'll likely revisit this in the future; it was so rich with insight I feel I would get even more on a second reading.

For all of us who have been wounded by another and struggled to understand and move beyond our feelings of hurt and anger, Lewis Smedes's classic book on forgiveness shows that it is possible to heal our pain and find room in our hearts to forgive. Breaking down the process of healing into four stages and offering stories of real people's experience throughout, this wise book provides hope and solace for all who long for the peace that comes with forgiveness. This classic is now available in an updated paperback PLUS edition with a reader's guide and other bonus materials.

Lewis Smedes holds a lot of anger. He has dealt with a lot in his past, but he should not be writing a book on forgiveness when it seems he has not truly grasped the concept himself.

Unravels the myths about forgiveness and sets us free to understanding that forgiveness can be not only a possibility but a reality.

Megbocsátani valakinek, aki fájdalmat okozott nekünk - különösen, ha közel áll hozzánk -, egyike a legnehezebb dolgoknak a világon. A sérelem dédelgetése, a haragtartás azonban nemcsak a kapcsolatot mérgezi meg, de azt is, aki képtelen megbocsátani.
Lewis B. Smedes amerikai teológus és etikatanár Bocsáss meg és felejts! című könyve ebben próbál segíteni. Bemutatja, mi módon szabadulhatunk meg a lelkünket mérgező fájdalomtól és gyűlölettől, s juthatunk el a megbékélésig.