Loved those lyrics, Joni. For so many years, I can't even count, I had hung onto a resentment towards my daughter's father. I knew I held onto it, and I knew I was refusing to let it go. It was nearly like, I needed to re experience it once in awhile for some sick validation.

Circumstances forced me into contact with the person I resented. Over the course of communicating with him, the resentments that I'd held to my heart slipped right thru my fingers. God just sort of pried open my hands and took them away, and this time I let Him keep them. I didn't know, really, how black that spot on my heart was until it was gone. Thirty years of anger and hurt, simmering inside, *poof*. It bowed my mental shoulders and I didn't even know how much til I was standing upright again. Forgiveness. In the process of that, I found that I was also forgiving myself.

Wonderful words, Joni.  Hugs, Wren