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<p><strong><em> Maya Angelou once said</em></strong>, &#8220;have the courage to trust love one more time, and always one more time.&#8221; We can all draw our own understandings from quotes. My understanding of the quote is that even when we&#8217;re hurt, we should always trust love again. Not necessarily from the same person (don&#8217;t get me wrong). If someone has hurt you to a point of no return, please by all means, run for the hills. However, if there is a true and genuine love there, I believe that some things are worth fighting for.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Now, I&#8217;m a firm believer that it is impossible for someone to love anyone else without first loving themselves. <em>(That can be a separate topic for later)</em> I also believe that it&#8217;s impossible to love unless you have<em><strong> first forgiven</strong></em>. <a href="https://queentoqueens.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/couple-on-couch-feeling-distant.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-285 size-medium" src="https://queentoqueens.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/couple-on-couch-feeling-distant.jpg?w=300" alt="couple-on-couch-feeling-distant" width="300" height="199" /></a>Forgiveness is something that I&#8217;ve struggled with. I was once faced with something that I found to be completely devastating from someone&#8230; and even though I verbally said <strong>&#8220;I forgive you&#8221;</strong>, the truth was, I didn&#8217;t forgive him. Each and everyday, I harbored that anger and resentment towards him. I wondered why I never felt better even though months went by after the situation occurred. It was because I hadn&#8217;t forgiven him! <strong>If God can forgive us for ALL of the sins that we commit daily, who am I to hold something over someone else&#8217;s head after they&#8217;ve apologized countless times.</strong> Recently, I&#8217;ve finally found peace with it and I have honestly forgiven him. It wasn&#8217;t easy, and sometimes that tinge of resentment still appears but I refuse to let it consume me.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re dealing with whether or not you should forgive someone, just do it. Being upset with them is affecting you more than it is them. It won&#8217;t happen over night, it took me <strong>months</strong> to reach a point of content and forgiveness with everything that occurred. If I can do it, you certainly can.</p>
<p>From Me to You, Love.
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