Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Forgiveness: 101 Stories about How to Let Go and Change Your Life

I just read the first 22 stories. I am disappointed so far. I did not learn or encouraged to forgive and let go. Stories focused so much on individuals who hurt others. Almost the lessons are they are victims of their circumstances and individuals who got hurt for so many years have to understand and forgive them. I will be reading the whole book (just in case there is something may help me)... I honestly encourage anybody looking for healing to search somwhere else. What has helped me to a certain degree is prayer and focusing on the positive side of where I am though I admit I still struggle with my past everytime I remember it.========================================================================Second update: I skipped 52 chapters and start reading chapters of section 8 "When a Crime Has Been Committed". I was touched by the depth of pain and tragedies that the victims had gone through. The examples of forgiveness touched me to the core. I found myself trying harder to forgive by praying Holy Father and Hail Mary for individuals who have hurt me for extended period of years and asking God to forgive me for disliking others based on their color and violent religious beliefs.

This book will help me better understand my self and heal.

This is the best book I have ever read on forgiveness. It humbled me. It changed my life. I will never be the same after reading this book! It took me on a quest for a deeper level of forgiveness. There are many heart felt examples of people forgiving for situations that did not even seem possible to me. How could I not forgive after reading this book? I believe the rewards of forgiveness are far reaching into eternity. Forgiveness brought me to a freedom that I had never known. This book is a must read for all people.

I thought some of the stories were good and was able to relate to them. Some were good but I could not compare to my life experiences.

I spent 2 1/2 years agonizing between hurt and anger over the way I had been treated by people that I thought were my friends. I knew that I should forgive them, but just could not get free of the thoughts of what they had done. I wanted to be free of the continual painful thoughts that flooded my mind and prayed often. Reading the stories in this book healed me. I was able to see how other people forgave and how it freed them. Forgiveness is not about letting them off the hook,, it's about you going free. Read this book.

So many things can happen in someones life that cause one to fall into forgiveness. Sometimes when we least expect it the need to forgive becomes a necessity. This book makes you reflect on how forgiveness isn't for the person who commited the injury, but for the one who was injured.

marvelous book -- has many easy to follow ideas to lessen your stress. I found the individual stories tto be able to touch my heart. It would be helpful for everyone to read this book as I'm sure we all have some issues from the past that we need to resolve.

I love Chicken Soup books and have read them since I was a child. I have read all of the newest ones and this one is just as good. Powerful stories. I got it on my iPad on the kindle app and everything was fine.

Who hasn't made mistakes by hurting someone, whether accidentally or perhaps on purpose? This book gives you the insight into forgiving those that may have hurt you, by releasing the hurt and pain, you can learn to move forward to be happy again. I'm a fan of the chicken soup books and find that there is so much to learn about life.

Mini stories about forgiveness. Nice read to see what people have dealt with

As always a great book

Excellent books

great books.