Lewis Smedes The Art Of Forgiveness

“The Art of Forgiveness” by Lewis Smedes is a book that got me thinking during the time I was reading it. Forgiveness is something that is hard to do, and especially if someone that did a big damage to your life.

The objective that Lewis Smedes has for the people to learn how to forgive. By forgiving the person you don’t need to make the enemy your best friend, or it doesn’t make him in good terms with you. The author states “Each person’s healing follows the same basic script. This is why for all of us, no matter how badly we have been hurt or when or why it happened, the remedy has one name: forgiveness.” This quote is very important because even though harm is caused, the only way to move on with your life, and not live in the past, is forgiveness. Without to forgive you can’t live the life. If you learn how to forgive. She talks about how difficult to surrender the right to get even with the person. She believes that there are one or two steps to forgiveness. Getting rid of getting even is something that has to happen to forgive the person. Getting even with someone will make you look as bad as the person that did something wrong to you. The author believes by letting go of vengeance you will have a chance of justice.
I am not a person that forgive, and this book honestly helped me out think about to forgiveness the people that hurt me during time. She also, brought the reason that forgiving the person you don’t need you reunite and become friends. Pain and wrongful pains are two important terms that come with forgiveness. Wrongful pain is something you don’t expect to come. For example if your friend goes against your trust and tells someone something you told them not to say, that’s wrongful pain because you did not see that