"The Burden of Resentment"

You cannot fully receive the abundance of what God has to offer you, until you relinquish to Him the burdens of resentment that you hold in your heart toward another. If any of your heart is consumed by anger, then that portion of your heart has been made unavailable to God.
He doesn't want part of your heart beloved, He wants it all.
Forgiveness does not necessarily bless the forgiven, so much as it blesses the Forgiver.
Once we forgive someone, we also take the power of whatever they did to hurt us away. And once that is removed from our hearts, we can come to Christ wholeheartedly and receive restoration and healing from Him. See; what makes it so difficult for us to forgive is: we as human beings, expect a resolution where there sometimes can't be one.

"You don't have to have resolution to have reconciliation." - Pastor Jentzen Franklin
And if I might add to this quote also, you don't have to have reconciliation in order to forgive.

The Word says: "Let not the sun set upon your anger." Jesus also says: "Blessed are the Peacemakers."

Forgiveness brings with it, peace. It does not make light of that which someone has done to hurt us, and by no means does it take the accountability away from that person for their actions.
What Forgiveness does do.... is free our souls from the bondage of resentment.
When we forgive, we no longer have to carry the weight of what has been done to us on our shoulders.

Upon being wronged by someone, have you ever felt this deep heaviness come over you, and you feel burdened by emotions that literally make you sick to your stomach? That is a grudge. And that is toxic to the soul.

"Holding a grudge is like drinking the poison and expecting the other person to die." - Author Unknown

The person who wronged you is going to go on about their day, unaffected by that weight that you carry because of something they've done. In order to have any freedom or peace from that weight, you have to let it go, and give it to God. Whether the person was right or wrong, it is not up to us to punish. Let God worry about that. God is just and faithful in His ways. Nothing goes unseen and so He will deal with each of us accordingly. FORGIVE. Let it go. Whatever you are holding onto, especially this time of year, let it go. Be blessed by the freedom of Forgiveness. Let God life that heavy burden of resentment from your soul and replace it with His peace.