Forgive

When someone has wronged you it is important to see yourself as a student with a lesson to learn, not as a victim. It’s easy to take the victim approach and accuse others of wrongdoings when you are not willing to see the situation for what it is.
The Holy Book may not say forgive and forget in those exact words but it is implied in every situation shown. People think that to forget means eliminating any trace of the memory but in fact it is asking us to not hold a grudge. This means giving a new start or clean slate to all who seek forgiveness because God does.
The concept to err is human, to forgive Divine, means that no one is exempt from making mistakes but by forgiving them it means we are following God’s example. We come from a “Higher” place when we forgive another for disappointing us. When we don’t forgive when asked we are coming from a place of anger and bitterness, a lower state of being. When we do forgive we are showing our level of compassion and understanding towards our fellow man.
God forgives us and overlooks prior transgressions because he is showing us the way to connect to the Divine in a complete way. We should never hold score on past wrongs because that will keep the suffering etched in our mind. This is not to say we don’t remember it, we just don’t give the past that much weight. Let it go and let it be, a forgiving heart is a heart that lives and beats for God’s service.