{"id":7466,"date":"2017-09-14T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Forgiveness-is-for-the-strong-we-should-not-be-afraid-of-it"},"modified":"2017-09-14T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T18:10:08","slug":"forgiveness-is-for-the-strong-we-should-not-be-afraid-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/?p=7466","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness is for the strong \u2013 we should not be afraid of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-MWyCwW0am88\/WbrF_0QVWkI\/AAAAAAAFYjQ\/3nUkQRD09Ics5k51SACrZjK2haXFPczDACJoC\/s0\/23876d9289215895fb062aebc397fa14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forgiveness is for the strong \u2013 we should not be afraid of it<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf you are finding yourself constantly angry about things which are out of your control, it\u2019s more important to first realize you are not responsible for <em>anything but your own feelings about it<\/em>.\u00a0 Then you must forgive.\u00a0 Even if you don\u2019t say it to the person, tell them inside your head, you forgive it. Don\u2019t forget to also forgive yourself, when you need to.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cI\u2019m afraid to forgive because . . .\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIt is understandable why we have a hard time being able to forgive. It makes us afraid. Afraid that forgiving means you\u2019re letting someone off the hook or to get away with something. Afraid that you may have to change, or be perceived by others as weak or soft.\u00a0 To live a loving and open life, this is the one fear you have to let go of.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nForgiveness isn\u2019t weakness \u2013 forgiveness is <strong>more powerful and useful<\/strong> than holding in resentment and living in anger.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let anger hold you back and weigh you down from having happiness you deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Forgiveness is for the strong \u2013 we should not be afraid of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calm-through-the-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}