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Why forgiveness cannot reach some kinds of guilt

I cheated on my husband twenty years ago and confessed and we worked through it, but I still wake up sometimes feeling like I'm going to be punished forever for that betrayal.

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The soul creates punishments that mercy cannot penetrate.

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