Please do not refuse a shipment or ignore requests from carriers regarding duty and/or tax liability charges. Her advice involves “collecting the dots” (knowing one’s story), “connecting the dots” (understanding the past and how it influences the present), and “correcting the dots” (changing perceptions to see things differently). But weeping with them and rejoicing with them does not mean trying to take control of their out-of-control choices and behaviors.

Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind You know you can't go on living like this, but you don't know what to do next. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.I mean I could have figured that out by googling the author, but I didn’t I just downloaded it and started reading. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I’m a big fan of It’s Not Supposed To Be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst, so I was super excited to get a copy of this book. I also walked away from reading this book and completing the Bible study with little insight as to how to forgive others and found it odd that one of the biggest issues for Lysa to forgive was simply glossed over and the reader was left guessing that everything worked out.

I was recommended another book from this author, but thought the topic of forgiveness was one I should read first. Lysa TerKeurst is president and chief visionary officer of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including Good Boundaries and Goodbyes, Forgiving What You Can’t Forget, and It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way. We all need someone to listen to our problems and try to help us out, but this only brought to me a story of her life. But in surprising ways, she’s discovered how to let go of bound-up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren’t willing to make things right. This book was probably the best counseling I ever received, and it cost me less than a single session of therapy!In reality, though, it was a thief in disguise, out to steal every bit of closeness between me and those I love. I’m not sure how to properly describe it, except to say on different days it crept up with varying personas that seemed to hold me together and rip me apart simultaneously.