Craft Fairs and Forgiveness

Pic credit to my awesome aunt!

Please forgive me for not posting last week. I was at a craft fair last weekend and I was crazy busy so I didn't have time to post.

So this week I want to talk about forgiveness and the importance of not only forgiving others but yourself as well. A few years ago I went through a very difficult struggle and the hardest part was being able to forgive myself and let it go. Forgiving someone else is a challenge already and I held on to that bitterness that I felt for longer than I needed to. I was recently looking through an old journal of mine and I found something I wrote from that time and it said "I don't even recognize the girl in the mirror anymore". I started thinking about it and I remembered exactly how I was feeling. I felt like I was in a hole all alone. This was the lowest I had ever felt in my life. I finally prayed for Heavenly Father to send me someone who would be able to help me and 10 minutes later my best friend called me and he talked to me for at least 2 hours and the last thing he said before he hung up was "Cheer up! I miss your smile." And that was when it hit me that I missed my smile too. From that point on I was done feeling sorry for myself. It took me longer to realize that I was also tired of being angry. Life is too short to waste your time beating yourself up or letting the anger eat at you longer. My best friend then became my boyfriend 5 months later (after being friend zoned for 6 years). I hope that you can find it in your heart to be a quick forgiver because there isn't enough time to be angry. This world needs as much love as it can get. Catch ya next week for another dose of vitamin "C"!!

-Chelsea

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