Forgiveness is not optional, but it is a choice we have to make. Sometimes you don’t want this to be true, and you’ll come up with all sorts of reasons and judgments to justify not forgiving someone, but it doesn’t matter what they did to you. You have the Holy Spirit in you and you must forgive to keep yourself from further injury. You see, when you give the gift of forgiveness to someone, you give yourself the gift of healing… “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32