01.08.EG.T01-PRR — Post-Reading Reflection: My Forgiveness Journey Forward

Taking Stock of Your Forgiveness Journey

You began this Guide by reflecting on your experiences with forgiving offenders, your understanding of forgiveness and what you hoped to gain from reading the Guide.

Now that you have completed the Guide, use this Post-Reading Reflection to consider what you have discovered about unforgiveness, forgiveness and your own responses to offenders.

1. Looking back at your understanding of forgiveness before reading this Guide, what has changed?

2. Which belief or opinion about forgiveness have you reconsidered as a result of reading this Guide?

3. Have you identified any signs of unforgiveness in yourself that you had not previously associated with an unresolved offence?

☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ I am not sure

If yes, what did you identify?

4. Has reading this Guide caused you to reconsider the effect that an unresolved offence may be having on any area of your life?

☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ I am not sure

If yes, what have you reconsidered?

5. What have you learnt about preventing bitterness and unforgiveness from becoming firmly established within you?

6. Which prevention practice discussed in the Guide do you now consider particularly important in your own life? Why?

7. What has become clearer to you about forgiving an offender who has not apologised?

8. What has become clearer to you about forgiving an offender without disregarding what you have learnt from the offence?

9. What has become clearer to you about the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation?

10. Have you identified anything in your response towards a particular offender or offence that you would now like to change?

☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ I am not sure

If yes, what would you like to change?

11. What have you identified about your own responsibility when you are the person who has offended someone else?

12. Have you identified anything in your response after offending someone that could make it more difficult for that person to forgive you?

☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ I am not sure

If yes, what did you identify?

13. Think back to what you hoped to understand about forgiving offenders when you began this Guide. To what extent has the Guide addressed that?

☐ Not at all
☐ To a small extent
☐ To a moderate extent
☐ To a considerable extent
☐ To a very great extent

Elaborate.

14. What has become clearer to you about the way you respond to offenders?

15. What is the most significant change you have identified in the way you now understand forgiveness?

16. As you complete this Guide, what would you like to do differently when dealing with offences in your relationships?