Resentment ...

<holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.>
tfs, carrie fisher

i THINK i'm not having problems with this AT ALL but today's reflections were all about forgiving 7 x 70 and all i could think about was, sure, i forgive people all the time because It Says WE are not forgiven unless we ourselves forgive. but the truth is many people (myself in the PAST please god included) DO forgive but they hold constant resentments toward those they've forgiven, as though they're holding something over their heads! so complicated, this living thing ...