Forgiving someone doesn’t mean condoning their behavior. It doesn’t mean forgetting how they hurt you or giving that person room to hurt you again. Forgiving someone means making peace with what happened. It means acknowledging your wound, giving yourself permission to feel the pain, and recognizing why that pain no longer serves you. It means letting go of the hurt and resentment so that you can heal and move on. Today, consciously set your intentions to forgive-forgive yourself and forgive those people who are the hardest ones for you to forgive. No matter how justified you feel you are, no matter what “they” did, if you insist on holding on to the past, then you will never be free. Forgiving yourself and others will release you from the prison of the past. Today, give yourself a gift that will ultimately free YOU from the past and help you move on to the future.

Just for today, I forgive everyone for all perceived wrongs. I release them with love. I recognize that the person who is the hardest to forgive is the one I need to forgive and let go of the most. I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the best way I know how. I forgive and set myself free. I am safe and out of this situation only good will come. And so it is.