Forgiveness?

"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." - Matthew 6:14-15.

This is the passage I read this morning after a tough day yesterday. It has been brought to my attention that there is still one major issue that I have not dealt with from my divorce. Forgiveness. There is still a lot of pain, anger, and bitterness left over from the whole thing. I think it stems from 2 specific things.
1. The covenant that was established on our wedding day was broken. The vows that were said were not true.
2. I now am known as being divorced. It is something that I have to tell people about and deal with for the rest of my life.

There are a few others, but I think these are the two primary reasons for my anger and bitterness. I have also noticed that my relationship with God has not been moving in the right direction. And the reason I think that this exists is because of the gap created by my unforgiveness toward my ex-wife. Without forgiveness towards her, I am not forgiven by God. Pray that I can forgive in order to be forgiven and ultimately remove this barrier between God and myself and others.

My uncle passed on a very profound thought today. He said, "if people (me and everyone else) never made mistakes, did wrong things, had issues including divorce/etc., there never would have needed to be an event that we now know as Good Friday and Easter!"