Forgiveness: Transforming You

by Jim Melanson

Forgiveness is one of the cornerstones of Christianity. Still, even though the Bible tells us to forgive, it does not tell us how to forgive … or does it?


Forgiveness is certainly not an immediate reaction. It is a process; it is something that you must work towards and want to work towards.


The Layman’s Bible Study Series on Forgiveness: Transforming You uses a biblical, psychological, and practical approach to forgiveness. The author guides readers through the process of understanding not only why you need to forgive, but to learn how you can forgive. The path to forgiveness is in the Bible, and reading through this book, you will see how the author backs this up with psychosomatic reasoning and applied experience.


The key to forgiveness, as you will learn, is in wanting to forgive. Once you have come to the realization that this is half the battle, you will learn how to get to that place of forgiveness via a step-by-step process. Through the pages of this book, readers will find a tried and true method of “working through the problem”, so that you can get beyond anger, remorse, hatred, victimization, and unhappiness. Once you learn how to forgive, and apply this method again and again, the process of forgiveness becomes easier as time goes by.


The ugly truth about being unforgiving is that it does not hurt the person who has not been forgiven: it only truly hurts the person who simply cannot forgive.


Spend some time working with God and yourself to find your path to forgiveness. Doing so will transform you into that person you wish you could be, the person you were meant to be: a person who is at peace.

179 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2017

About the author

Poet, programmer, procrastinator, sci-fi geek, coffee snob, actor, writer, and devoted Christian (but not a MAGA, Christo-Fascist kind).

I'm a quiet and thoughtful man who tends to think deeply, and act slowly. Much of this inner reflection and self-assessment shows up in my writing. “Capturing what truly motivates us,” is how I describe my approach to both fiction and non-fiction. I've been told I have a very direct, and sometimes in-your-face, way of writing. I try to always use conversational language; and as one test reader of my first novel put it, “made the complexities of space flight seem almost understandable.”

I read my first novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder at the age of eight, and this began my love affair with the written word. My first foray into personal writing, as a child, was poetry. These and other poetic scribblings provided the content for my first book, I Apologize for Nothing, published in April 2014.

Life, a child, a career with the Police Service, and a part-time business authoring software; all got in the way of pursuing my desire to write. In my 40’s, I decided to turn my hand back to writing, mainly on topics surrounding self-development, spirituality, and Reiki. However, none of these really satisfied that craving for creativity.

In 2013, I decided to pursue this creative yearning, and I began writing for pleasure. Drawing on a solid work ethic from my experience authoring technical manuals and writing business proposals, I found writing for myself to be liberating and enjoyable. While working on my first fiction novel, I kept getting sidetracked by other ideas. I dusted off an old stage play I had written and published it under the title, Mama’s Slippers, with the hopes of attracting production interest. I currently continue to work on science fiction projects, including short stories and flash stories.

Originally hailing from the East Coast, I now lives just outside Cobourg, ON.