The Freedom from Guilt and ability to Forgive

Women in my church are daily reading out of the book Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young. We are then to blog a comment on what we read for that day.
Today's reading was partly on the freedom of forgiveness.
 Walk with Me in the freedom of forgiveness.  Wow, I struggled with that for years.
( FORGIVENESS )
My daughter was abused by a man that was in our lives. In time we both were able to forgive him for what he had done. But, I could not forgive myself. I am her mother, I am suppose to protect her from men like him. Not welcome him into our home, our lives. I felt guilty for failing my daughter.  I did not think I was worthy of forgiveness. I carried that burden of guilt upon my shoulders for many years.
Then a few years ago in a bible study, we were told to write a letter to someone we needed to forgive. We did not have to mail the letter. Just write it and give it to God. So, I wrote a letter to myself, pouring out all the anger within me on that piece of paper. By, the end of the letter however;  I wrote these words,"Karen, I forgive you."
I then gave the letter to God. Then in all my humbleness, I curled myself up into a ball and cried for the next hour.
For a very long time, I denied myself the freedom from guilt and forgiveness. It became a stumbling block in my life.
Once I removed the heavy load I carried and laid it at the foot of the cross, I became undeniably free.
Grace and Peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.( ll Peter 1:2)