Forgiving What You Can't Forget

Introduction

• The subject of forgiveness can be sensitive.
• Many people attach it to their most painful experiences.
• The message is delivered with tenderness.
• Invocation expressing gratitude to the Lord for understanding human pain.
• Key prayer by Jesus in Gethsemane:
  • “Everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
• Emphasis on aligning our will with God's will.

Personal Journey with Forgiveness

• Irony: Preaching about forgiveness in a week of personal struggle with forgiveness.
• Life likened to a game of whack-a-mole: solving one issue only for more to arise.
• Challenges of feeling hurt and struggling to forgive.
• Forgiveness as an