The Problems of Forgiveness
From today’s Enneathought: “Forgiveness is part of love. Who do you need to forgive?” Have we talked about forgiveness, you and I? I’m not sure. I think that in the course of daily life, in the relationships we treasure, in the ways we hurt one another through ill-meant words and actions and thoughtlessness, forgiveness can […]
May We Be Reconciled?
Forgiveness is something I—like many of you—struggle with. In my case, mostly, it’s not because I don’t forgive people. It’s because I forgive people—or what I then think is forgiving—too easily. I have allowed people who have hurt me to hurt me again and again out of some kind of misplaced sense of “compassion.” Fierce […]