This book has the potential to change your life. – Review by Lynette Gray
‘The Book of Forgiving‘ took me a week to read, I finished it yesterday and gave it to my mum to take on holiday. I’ve recommended it to lots of my friends; one friend ordered it straight away and sent me a message to thank me as it is helping her through a heavy time in her life.
This book is a gift, it is so powerful, I have learnt so much from it and I now feel a lot lighter.
‘The Book of Forgiving’ is restorative, it is not a book for entertainment, but it is a book for you to work through, with heartbreaking real life stories along the way and exercises to help you heal your life, your community and eventually the world.
Forgiveness is Self-Love, forgiveness is freedom.
Desmond and Mpho clearly state throughout the whole book that forgiveness is not excusing the perpetrator or showing weakness.
“Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.”
‘The Book of Forgiving’ provides you with a four-step process for forgiveness, which is backed up scientifically, I now truly understand forgiveness and I am so grateful to Desmond and Mpho.
Today I feel inspired, my vibration has been raised and I will be recommending this book to everyone.
Back page explanation:
“Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation.
Tutu’s role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one’s story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu’s wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world.”
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This post was written by Lynette Gray