Forgiveness and Trust Have Different Timelines
During our recent Naked and Unashamed Marriage Conference, my husband and I were sharing about living forgiven and forgiving. As the group we were speaking to wrestled with what forgiveness entailed, I was yet again reminded of how the practice is both familiar and foreign. We know intellectually that forgiveness is a necessity to thriving, maturing, intimate relationships. We ask for it, wait for it, desire it, and even demand it, but as C.S. Lewis points out, “We all agre