Forgiveness

I'm not really sure why this topic feels so relevant to me today, but it is a topic we discussed in our Sunday School class yesterday morning. We're reading an awesome book and the two chapters we discussed yesterday were forgiving yourself and accepting forgiveness. Someone made a pretty insightful observation that all our lives we're taught the steps on how to forgive others who have wronged you. The converse of that is that no one ever teaches us how to forgive ourselves. In a society where social, familial, and professional pressures increase each generation, we fail to teach young people how to cope and handle their missteps personally. Often, we either hear or speak the phrases,"I am my own worst critic," or, "I hold myself to a higher standard than anyone else could." How do we get past the feelings when inevitably we fall short. Personally, I find it more difficult to accept forgiveness from others when I haven't even forgiven myself. Thank God for grace and wisdom that I may teach my children to accept the grace of others and to understand that we are destined to imperfection but loved for who we are.