Corrie ten Boom told of not being able to forget a wrong that had been done to her. Shehad forgiven the person, but she kept rehashing the incident and so couldn't sleep.Finally Corrie cried out to God for help in putting the problem to rest. "His helpcame in the form of a kindly Lutheran pastor," Corrie wrote, "to whom Iconfessed my failure after two sleepless weeks." "Up in the church tower,"he said, nodding out the window, "is a bell which is rung by pulling on a rope. Butyou know what? After the sexton lets go of the rope, the bell keeps on swinging. Firstding, then dong. Slower and slower until there's a final dong and it stops. I believe thesame thing is true of forgiveness. When we forgive, we take our hand off the rope. But ifwe've been tugging at our grievances for a long time, we mustn't be surprised if the oldangry thoughts keep coming for a while. They're just the ding-dongs of the old bellslowing down." "And so it proved to be. There were a few more midnightreverberations, a couple of dings when the subject came up in my conversations, but theforce -- which was my willingness in the matter -- had gone out of them. They came lessand less often and at the last stopped altogether: we can trust God not only above ouremotions, but also above our thoughts."
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