For the 40 days of Lent, I pick someone in my life that has hurt me, or that I have great…anger towards, to forgive. You typically give up things you love, so you can suffer as Jesus did. I never had a problem giving things up. So I started thinking of thing that would be really hard for me to do. Then it came to me…Forgiveness.

I had become such a bitter/angry person who could not let things go. So during Lent, I continuously think about why I am angry or hurt and work at forgiving that person. Sometimes a person is on there for more than a year. I have been doing this for over 10 years now, and my problems with depression are getting better because of it.

A couple of years ago, I was the person I needed to forgive. After I was done, I had a tattoo placed over my depression driven cutting scars that states ‘Forgive and Forget’.