A teacher once told each of her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to school. For every person they refuse to forgive in their life's experience, they chose a potato, wrote on it the name and date, and put it in the plastic bag. Some of their bags were quite heavy.
They were then told to carry this bag with them everywhere for one week, putting it beside their bed at night, on the car seat when driving, next to their desk at work.
The hassle of lugging this around with them made it clear what a weight they were carrying spiritually, and how they had to pay attention to it all the time to not forget and keep leaving it in embarrassing and unwanted places.
Too often we think of forgiveness as a gift to the other person, while it is clearly for ourselves. As long as we don't learn to let go, it will simply get worse and worse as we drag that invisible growing and rotting bag of old potatoes in our lives.
Author Unknown
from feedmecheesy.com
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