“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Matthew 6:12

This verse comes from what is commonly called the Lord’s Prayer. When I first learned this prayer in Sunday school, I asked my father what it meant. He said that however we forgive somebody when they do us wrong is exactly how God will forgive us when we do wrong.
Yikes!
I definitely did not like that. In fact, for some time, whenever I had to recite the Lord’s Prayer, I didn’t say that verse. (As if that wouldn’t apply to me if I didn’t say it).

Eventually I would discover that apparently this verse is so important, that immediately after the prayer, are verses 14 and 15, “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” NIV

Later, in Matthew 18, Jesus tells a parable illustrating exactly what this verse means.
In time, I stopped not speaking that verse out loud, because I realized that it didn’t really matter what I did or did not say, if God said it, it’s true.
I must admit, even today, whenever I say the Lord’s Prayer, my mind starts racing. Am I really ok here?
I reflect on how I forgive… and sometimes re-reflect on that.