For the healing of the wounds

You planned something bad for me, but God produced something good from it. (Genesis 50:20)

  Sometimes, people hold on to their sorrow until it becomes bitterness. They let sad memories dampen their minds and drain them of their joy of living. It’s like they keep bumping that bruise, which prevents it from ever healing.
 That also happened to me. Once I had a grudge against someone for a few weeks, until a friend advised me to let it go and start praying for that person. He said: “If you pray for him, you’ll soon feel the resentment has gone.” I followed that advice, and it really happened!
 For the healing of the wounds there’s a condition: we have to do the forgiving and the forgetting, the “letting go.” No matter what bad things happen, God can work them for our good as we love, trust, and follow Him.
 Note that God Himself forgives and forgets! Hebrew 8:12 says: “I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”
This principle is at the heart of the Christian message. It’s what God did for us when He sent Jesus to die for our sins. If we want to be followers of Jesus, we must receive His love and forgiveness, and then learn to forgive and forget—not only for the good of others, for our own as well! —Rosane Pereira [1]

 Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word. —Billy Graham

[1] Activated Forgiving and Forgetting