My husband has a few statements that we consider family truths to live by. One of the most famous is, "Assign blame and forgive." If something bad happens to you, you're going to have to move past it. This slogan is made of two steps.
I think Christians often try to skip over the assign blame part. Did someone wrong you? Then say it. Maybe not to their face, but the clarity of what went wrong is good for you. God was honest about our sin. If our sin is just "little stuff" then Jesus didn't accomplish very much on the cross. But the cross wasn't just a little change to cover a little problem. The truth doesn't diminish God.
So be clear and truthful, just like the Lord. Call things what they are. But once you've assigned blame--and let's be honest, sometimes you get some of the blame in a situation, it's not always the other guy--imitate God again: forgive. Let it go. Don't hold it against them. And don't cheat yourself by getting stuck in the "assign blame" stage. The other side of forgiveness is freedom for you.
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