LEADERSHIP FORGIVENESS DECLARATION

LYSA TERKEURST

This is forgiveness.

Making the decision that the ones who hurt you no longer get to limit you, label you or lure you into becoming hard-hearted.

Their offense must not define you or confine you by the smallness of bitterness.

The sum total of your one incredible life must not be reduced to the limitations of living hurt.

Leadership means that people love you until they don’t.

But if they betray you, leave you, and take from you... don’t willingly hand over your integrity as well. Don’t waste your energy on simmering resentments. And don’t prove them right by now acting wrong.

Remember, their exit might have just given you the very things needed to usher in your team’s greatest idea... innovation requires necessity and resistance.

So forgive them. And maybe even thank them and wish them well! They didn’t stop you. They propelled you!

Throw your arms up in victory and declare, I’m free to forgive so that I can live! And discover! And create! And innovate!

Now, get a bit carried away dancing to that song... you know the one where you can’t possibly stay down when it’s rhythm gets turned all the way up. And if it’s not a praise song, sing to Jesus anyway.

Dance! And sing! It’s time to get moving and on with living. This my friend, is the beauty of forgiving.

LEADERSHIP FORGIVENESS DECLARATION

LYSA TERKEURST

This is forgiveness.

Making the decision that the ones who hurt you no longer get to limit you, label you or lure you into becoming hard-hearted.

Their offense must not define you or confine you by the smallness of bitterness.

The sum total of your one incredible life must not be reduced to the limitations of living hurt.

Leadership means that people love you until they don’t.

But if they betray you, leave you, and take from you... don’t willingly hand over your integrity as well. Don’t waste your energy on simmering resentments. And don’t prove them right by now acting wrong.

Remember, their exit might have just given you the very things needed to usher in your team’s greatest idea... innovation requires necessity and resistance.

So forgive them. And maybe even thank them and wish them well! They didn’t stop you. They propelled you!

Throw your arms up in victory and declare, I’m free to forgive so that I can live! And discover! And create! And innovate!

Now, get a bit carried away dancing to that song... you know the one where you can’t possibly stay down when it’s rhythm gets turned all the way up. And if it’s not a praise song, sing to Jesus anyway.

Dance! And sing! It’s time to get moving and on with living. This my friend, is the beauty of forgiving.

LEADERSHIP FORGIVENESS DECLARATION

LYSA TERKEURST

This is forgiveness.

Making the decision that the ones who hurt you no longer get to limit you, label you or lure you into becoming hard-hearted.

Their offense must not define you or confine you by the smallness of bitterness.

The sum total of your one incredible life must not be reduced to the limitations of living hurt.

Leadership means that people love you until they don’t.

But if they betray you, leave you, and take from you... don’t willingly hand over your integrity as well. Don’t waste your energy on simmering resentments. And don’t prove them right by now acting wrong.

Remember, their exit might have just given you the very things needed to usher in your team’s greatest idea... innovation requires necessity and resistance.

So forgive them. And maybe even thank them and wish them well! They didn’t stop you. They propelled you!

Throw your arms up in victory and declare, I’m free to forgive so that I can live! And discover! And create! And innovate!

Now, get a bit carried away dancing to that song... you know the one where you can’t possibly stay down when it’s rhythm gets turned all the way up. And if it’s not a praise song, sing to Jesus anyway.

Dance! And sing! It’s time to get moving and on with living. This my friend, is the beauty of forgiving.