Forgive and Forget?

Why is it easy to forgive someone but so hard to forget. The words, the actions, the hurt will come up at unexpected times causing more pain and hurtful words.

Yes forgiveness is a process. It takes self-discipline and internal healing to forgive someone. The forgiveness is healing yourself so you can move forward in your life. Most times the person who has caused the hurt doesn’t even realize they need to be forgiven. And if they have realized it and asked for forgiveness it is still a healing process. The forgetting though…. How is it that a different time, place, action can cause everything to come back like a record on repeat. The sudden flow of emotion that hits you off guard and causes a reaction you weren’t expecting because you thought you had moved on. Maybe this is not to cause more pain in our life but to teach us that we don’t need to forget things to move on. Maybe we need to learn more about why that hurt is still coming up. What still needs work inside of me to keep that pain from coming back? Forgive but remember the thing that happened to avoid it happening again. Learn from life, learn from pain and hurt emotions and grow inside.