24 January 2025
Forgiveness is not the comfortable, often somewhat superior, "I
forgive you" that comes so easily to human lips when emotions are cooled.
Things are then smoothed over but the resentment descendants into the
unconscious together with a hidden condition that the "forgiven"
injury shall not be repeated. The ultimate experience of forgiveness brings a
change of heart, a mentanoia of the spirit, after which every seeming injury,
injustice, rejection, past, present, future, every so-called blow of fate,
becomes, as it were, a essential note in the music of God, however discontent
it may sound to our superficial hearing. And the experience excludes nothing --
which means that in this moment of forgiveness all one's sins and weaknesses
are included, being at the same time remembered and known as the essential
darkness which has revealed to us the light.
Helen M. Luke
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