May 16 - The Freedom of Forgiveness

The Daily Ripples Podcast · May 16, 2026 · 19m · transcript

Forgiveness isn't a feeling you wait for. It's a decision you make before the feeling arrives. Corey and Bill work through what that actually looks like — from page 66 of the Big Book to the cross.

Forgiveness often begins as a decision before it becomes a feeling. Willingness opens the door, even when the heart is not fully ready.

Bill opens with Matthew 6:14-15 — right after the Lord's Prayer, Jesus says if you don't forgive others, your Father won't forgive you. That sends them to page 67: the old angle was that the world and its people were wrong, and concluding they were wrong was as far…