Hope Counseling Colorado

“Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration. Forgiveness means cleansing your soul of the bitterness of ‘what might have been,’ ‘what should have been,’ and ‘what didn’t have to happen.’ Someone has defined forgiveness as ‘giving up all hope of having had a better past.’ What’s past is past and there is little to be gained by dwelling on it. There are perhaps no sadder people then the men and women who have a grievance against the world because of something that happened years ago and have let that memory sour their view of life ever since.”

Rabbi Harold S Kushner

When we lose someone, the entire landscape of our life changes. We grieve, not only the person, but their place in our lives and in our hopes and dreams. Their absence changes everything about what we see and what the future looks like.

Yet, their love still remains steadily underneath the pain of it all. Their love plays a role in our hopes and dreams and futures. Soft and steady. Persevering. Continuing. Still there. Still there..

And we take that love with us into each new day in whatever way we can. And we bring them with us. And we know in our hearts that their love plays just as big of a role now as it did before. Because when we love deeply, we love forever. ❤️