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Why is it almost all of us find it so hard to forgive ourselves? I don't know if it is true for everyone else but in my case it is because I knew better. I knew the right thing to do and chose the wrong. I can and have forgiven the other people. There are some people who I have nothing to forgive but have gotten forgiveness from them. Maybe it's enough to believe that if God forgives me who am I NOT to forgive myself. I think that is another seed to plant in the garden: that being truly forgiven by God I can forgive myself, try my best to forget and move on. I read the "Lost Love" section inserted in there and I liked the part near the end where he suggests that we ask God to give us something really stretching to do to fill the void and then go do that. I believe that is what I will do.