more on forgivenness

 photo by blake spencer

words from others

on forgiveness: 

forgiveness means it finally becomes 
unimportant that you hit back.  

you're done.  it doesn't necessarily mean 

that you want to eat lunch with 

the person.  

if you keep hitting back,

you stay trapped in the nightmare.

- Anne Lamott

forgive and forget, we are told.

but can we simply forget what has happened....?

christian forgiveness is not ignorant --

it knows,

but still offers grace. 

- F. LeRon Shults

forgiveness is one of the 

only forms of freedom

that any person 

can give to another.

- Beverly Flanigan

we have to see potentials 

in the lives of even the worst people,

have to see that it is 

we who can 

dam the flow of grace.

-Martin E. Marty

hmmm.

words to ponder. 

i do have to admit though

sometimes

the words of 

Elizabeth I

resonate:

GOD may forgive you,

but i never can.

and then

again...

there is 

Desmond Tutu:

without forgiveness,

there is no future.