How do I forgive someone who beat me up

[Bobber]

Its me again. Im 27 and suffering from serious mental retardation. When I was in 6 grade a kid starting beating me up everyday for 2 weeks and it hurt and I dont know why he did it. How do I forgive him. I got so mad at him in my heart.

Well there's a spiritual side of this we need to consider. The Bible does say, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph 6:12

Wrong spirits can motivate others to do things of an evil way too. It's helped me in forgiving others, that is flesh and blood people who have done me wrong to know that in a sense they were like mere puppets of forces beyond themselves.

Knowing this that at least opens the door for me to sincerely pray for a person who has done me wrong realizing in a sense that they were being taken advantage of as well. Sometimes people who are doing crazy unkind things it's not always they who are or were the originators of the thoughts to do so.