It's so hard to reconcile the fact that I'm going to attend a retreat while I still have this nagging disdain towards certain people... so I surfed the net during this short break to find something that would guide me, and I'm copy-pasting it here:

"Forgiveness does not mean having to like the person who hurts us. It simply means we have to let it go, release the heavy burden of anger, leave the past behind and look to a bright new day. "

"Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him" Luke 17:2-4. Take that scripture passage one step further and forgive whether the sinner repents or not. Forgiveness is a gift we give to ourselves, challenging us to believe that there is a better future and giving us the inner confidence to know that we will survive the pain and suffering. Healing of that pain comes faster when we can let it go and stop it from festering inside like a volcano ready to errupt.

"God may not like the sin but He still loves the sinner, waiting for that change of heart to be able to say, SORRY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME, and to really mean it."