Thanks Laural – the project may actually be getting some traction now, more details to follow…

Love this idea. I try it in my own little world. I do have my limitations though.

I may have to do that – I own the domain, but I haven’t had anyone step up to help me create the site.  Not a talent I have (or at least not enough to do it right).  I’ll give that some thought.  Thanks for stopping by my dear Effy…

I adore the idea of Kindness Underground. I am wondering if you couldn’t host a community (like, maybe on Buddypress or something) that would practice random acts of kindness anonymously, but tell one another what we did and how it went ~ sort of like positive reinforcement.

Awesome.

Welcome back!!

Absolutely agree, you can’t forgive until you recognize the need.

Thanks Steve – What a great quote, it definately belongs with this post.

Just thinking again. Have you ever been really angry with God? I was once when my daughter died, at age 33, from leukemia after just 3 1/2 months, and have come to realize that a lot of people are angry with God and just do not realize it or don’t want to acknowledge it. It’s actually a comon emotion but folks fail to realize it’s the root of a problem and just can’t handle the fact they could really be angry with God and are in denial. They need to be told it’s ok to feel that way. Once acknowledging the fact, they can then deal with it. Don’t know if this makes sense to you–trying to summerize a whole class session of my counseling class into a paragraph. Just wanted to say that anger needs to be recognized before you can forgive.

Excellent post! I’ll only add that I think in one of John Eldredge’s books, he writes that forgiveness is making a choice toward the transgressor that communicates: “It was wrong. It mattered. And I release you.”