Forgiveness

By the end of the play when Othello is about to kill his wife, he has her beg for forgiveness from God. This is done so that Othello can ensure that Desdemona would go to heaven even though she had “sinned”. This makes it seem as though Othello still cares for his wife and did not wish for her to go to the worse place she could be “hell” because of one mistake which the audience knows she did not commit but Othello has not been privy to this information just yet. After Desdemona is killed and…

Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 9:6 Marriage is a gift God bestowed upon to man ever since the creation at the Garden of Eden around six thousand years ago. He designed it to be sacred, Holy, and forever. In the book the Scarlet Letter, a man named Roger Chillingworth left moved himself and his wife to a small New England Puritan town, then left her there to study medicine, before getting to really meet anyone. When he returned, however, he found her…

situation and received an apology. Hearing this directly from the source of my pain, I found closure through forgiveness. Through those months of suffering, I learned that holding on to resentment impeded my happiness, because it kept me in the past rather than moving forward. In order for anyone to truly overcome trauma, they must forgive themselves and others for what occurred. Forgiveness frees us to move…

Forgiveness is linked to a number of health outcomes, health conditions, and psychosocial and psychophysiological factors known to be associated with mortality/longevity (Worthington et al., 2007). However, studies have not linked forgiveness to mortality per se, and little is known about the extent to which the effect of forgiveness on mental and physical health ultimately influences an individual’s mortality risk. Theorists have argued that the responses victims adopt toward their offenders…

wrong in the past? Is forgiveness a way to make yourself feel better? I believe to forgive is a way to set yourself free, to admit that it does no good to hate. I think forgiveness is a characteristic of our humankind. I think that a lot of us are raised up to believe that if we don’t forgive, whatever it is troubling, angering, make our blood boil or shaming us, is going to last longer if we don’t forgive, whether it is ourselves or whether it is others we are forgiving. Forgiveness is…

I feel forgiveness is the key and the beginning to healing. The loss of my father has been on my mind since the day I lost him. I can tell you off the top of my head how long it has been without even thinking, because not one day goes by that I do not miss him and…

Repentance is another important factor in achieving redemption. It is more spiritual than asking for forgiveness for things you have wrongfully done. God has to be put first and there has to be a change of heart. There has to be willingness to abort any sin and admit their faults, then emotional peace can be achieved. Individuals are neither born good or evil, but display equal capability for both. There are many urges driving them to care for others as we do to harm them. To label anyone, even…

In fact, the participants in the forgiveness group showed minimal to no depression and anxiety while the participants in the alternative group showed signs of moderate depression and anxiety. Women who have been abused may have a hard time getting over the experience because they resent the fact that it happened and they resent the person who abused them but any kind of therapy that supports women’s expression of anger without helping them to find meaning in their suffering and teaching them how…

Forgiveness is a hard thing to come by, an even harder thing to give. As a child I grew up happy and healthy, until one day that all spiraled down. It kept getting worse, he pushed the envelope as my counselor told me. I wasn’t aware what was happening because I was young, as I got older I knew what he was doing. I didn’t tell. I was quiet. He would do things he wasn't supposed to do, he would sneak out and I would be the person he told. He told me his secrets knowing I wasn’t going to say…

have to face up to the consequences of their actions and decisions, there’s more to the story after they achieve atonement. They deserve forgiveness. Forgiveness is a funny thing in the way that it is not something that is both to be administered generously, and stringently. Many people feel that many of the individuals in our prison systems may not deserve forgiveness, but it is imperative that we give it to those who do. According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, 81% of all…