Once a young boy had a cat that died. The boy took it out behind the house, dug a hole and buried it. However, as he covered up the dead cat, he left the tail sticking up out the ground. Every day he would go out into the back yard and yank on the dead cat's tail. One day his daddy saw him pulling the tail and asked his son what he was doing. The boy replied, "I'm just making sure it is still dead."
Many times we do the same thing with forgiveness issues. We say that we have gotten past some hurt or grievance, but we still go back and tug on it occasionally, "Just to make sure it is still dead". Our lives will be much more fullfilling and joyous when we bury our grievances, tail and all.
An old preacher friend of mine once told me "No one can get your goat if you don't tell people where you keep it tied up."
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