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How Can Forgiveness Be So Hard?

It's very weird.  I'm just saying, the contradictions of humanity still blow my mind.  I don't get me. Forgiveness comes so easily at times.  Other moments and situations it's a concerted effort.  When it comes to other people it's natural to assume forgiveness will have to enter into all of one's relationships.  People are flawed and fallen and will let you down. There are some people that will enter your life who will let you down much less than others.  But from my time on this earth I can guarentee that everyone you know will let you down, someway, somehow, sometime. That's not to say the relationship will be permantantly damaged.  It could be in the smallest way in which a person fails to meet your expectations.  Such trival matters are easy to forgive and forget and leave in the past.  There are, of course, larger issues that will bend and strain your patience.  These situations grow to mountain size and often appear insurm...