Join Joe McDonald as he explores the transformative power of forgiveness in Steps 8 and 9 of Alcoholics Anonymous. Joe emphasizes the profound impact that offering genuine forgiveness can have on both the giver and the receiver, highlighting how the process of making amends benefits everyone involved.

Joe explains, “So it’s harder to go to an enemy than to a friend, but we find it much more beneficial to us. It’s for them, it’s for you, it’s for everybody, but the reality is I get the benefit of being an instrument of forgiveness only when I’m issuing forgiveness. You can tell me you forgive me all you want; it ain’t going to change the way I feel for very long. I’ll just set my sights on what I can manipulate out of you after that. But when I go to you and offer forgiveness sincerely from me and offer to make right anything wrong, i ...