Forgiveness

Have you ever had a hard time forgiving? I am having that exact issue right now. I have encountered a situation with a person who has said some hurtful and incorrect things. This person has made several assumptions about me and my family that just are not right. I guess Heavenly Father puts us in these situations for a reason. Joe and I gave talks at Church a couple of weeks ago on forgiveness...I spoke about being on the receiving end of forgiveness and he spoke on giving forgiveness. I think that I might have learned more if I gave his talk. Or at least maybe I wouldn't be having such a hard time with this unfortunate situation. I so badly want to respond to every single hurtful comment but decided after several discussions with Joe to take the higher road and not respond to the things that were said but to simply send an email to end the discussion and move on. I have such a wonderful husband and that he is such an awesome example to me. Well this morning I received yet another email......FAAAAREEEEEK!!!! ARGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! This whole situation will not go away! It is like this person has to get the final word in. Well I'm letting her have the final word. I just don't feel that anything she has said warrents a response. As much as I hate to just let her make all of these assupmtions I just don't have the energy to respond. I'm sure that as soon as I make a response then there will be another email to follow and another and another. It will turn into the neverending circle of responses. Is that forgiveness to not respond or just me not having the energy to let this go on and on and on and on?

Thanks for reading my vent fest!