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A Prayer for When You Cannot Forgive Someone

For when you know you should forgive, and your heart has not caught up.

When it feels like this

Sometimes 'you should forgive' becomes one more weight to carry. You know what is asked, and your heart is still back there. This prayer does not force the heart to move. It brings the heart as it is.

An example prayer

UNFORGIVENESS · A PRAYER OF REPENTANCE

I come before the God who cancels debts too great to ever repay, like the king in Jesus' story.

I've been holding onto bitterness instead of forgiving.

Let me place this bitterness in your hands.

Thank you that you do not turn away from those who return to you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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