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Forgiveness

Forgiveness. Forgiveness is a willingness to abandon one’s right to resentment, negative judgment, and indifferent behavior toward one who unjustly injured us. Forgive is NOT 1. forgetting past wrongs to “move on” 2. excusing or condoning bad, damaging behavior

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Forgiveness

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  1. Forgiveness Forgiveness is a willingness to abandon one’s right to resentment, negative judgment, and indifferent behavior toward one who unjustly injured us. Forgive is NOT 1. forgetting past wrongs to “move on” 2. excusing or condoning bad, damaging behavior 3. Reconciliation or coming together again 4. reducing the severity of offenses 5. offering a legal pardon 6. pretending to forgive in order to wield power over another person 7. ignoring the offender 8. dropping our anger and becoming emotionally neutral.

  2. Forgiveness Forgiveness Scale Respond to each of the following items on a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 7 (strongly disagree) 1. “I tend to get over it quickly when someone hurts my feelings.” 2. “If someone wrongs me, I often think about it a lot afterward.” 3. “I have a tendency to harbor grudges.” 4. “ When people wrong me, my approach is just to forgive and forget.”

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