{"id":1251,"date":"2017-04-07T06:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T10:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2017-04-07T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:10:45","slug":"week-134-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Week #134 – Forgive!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Forgive!” (Photo credit: Grace Church)<\/p><\/div>\n

Week #134 – Forgive!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings Happyness Tribe!<\/p>\n

Last week<\/a> I talked about how we can Spread Happyness\u00a0through feedback and follow-up.<\/p>\n

Today\u00a0I want to talk about forgiveness because…well, I needed a measure of grace this week.<\/p>\n

And I didn’t get it.<\/p>\n

I made a mistake. \u00a0An oversight. \u00a0An error in judgment. \u00a0Call it what you will. \u00a0It wasn’t intentional — and I made amends. \u00a0No one is dead and no one’s in jail (as I like to say). \u00a0Still, it may have cost me something I\u00a0value.<\/p>\n

But I may have received something more valuable in return: insight.<\/p>\n

Forgiveness is hard. \u00a0I know. \u00a0I’ve been there. \u00a0But what I realized was this: it gets easier with practice.<\/p>\n

A little grace, here and there, turns us into more compassionate beings overall: a little more understanding; a little more likely to give the benefit of the doubt; a little more willing to say, no harm no foul and go about our day; or a second more to consider the burden WE voluntarily pick up and agree to carry when we decide to hold a grudge.<\/p>\n

I’m not suggesting you let your guard down to danger or compromise a healthy boundary. \u00a0Those are topics well beyond the scope of this site. \u00a0But this week — Spread\u00a0Happyness, and let someone off the hook. \u00a0A hook you might not want to get stuck holding on to in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Your Happyness Challenge for the Week Ahead: FORGIVE! \u00a0<\/strong>Again,\u00a0I’m not suggesting you pick up the big-ticket items, the deep wounds, and the outright betrayals that may be haunting you. \u00a0Just start small:\u00a0forgive the guy in the car in front of you who is driving too slow; the lady at the grocery store who waits until the whole order is rung up and bagged to dig for her wallet; the clerk or the waiter who didn’t give you the best service this time around; or the fumbling trainee who is still learning the system. You get the idea.<\/p>\n

It is SO EASY these days to complain, to call someone out, to cry foul. \u00a0And as customers, clients, and patrons — we may be right. \u00a0But just a small dose of compassion might change someone else’s day — and it might change yours even more!<\/p>\n

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” \u00a0(Alexander Pope)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spread Happyness —\u00a0forgive someone\u00a0this week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4\/7\/17\u00a0by Grace Church
\n<\/em>\u00a9 Grace Church
\ngrace@spreadhappyness.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week #134 – Forgive! Greetings Happyness Tribe! Last week I talked about how we can Spread Happyness\u00a0through feedback and follow-up. Today\u00a0I want to talk about forgiveness because…well, I needed a measure of grace this week. And I didn’t get it. I made a mistake. \u00a0An oversight. \u00a0An error in judgment. \u00a0Call it what you will. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}