Monday's Musing
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." - Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is sometimes a real struggle for me. What's amazing is that my younger son seems to have a natural and endless supply of it. I marvel at him.
Have a great week, everyone! Hope to see a lot of you at Stitches West!
Forgiveness is sometimes a real struggle for me. What's amazing is that my younger son seems to have a natural and endless supply of it. I marvel at him.
Have a great week, everyone! Hope to see a lot of you at Stitches West!
Labels: Monday's Musing
posted by Romi at 9:12 PM
4 Comments:
Rosemary- Kids have alot to teach us, and one of the best lessons is to move on an let it go.
Easier said than done.
Oh, I am sooooo with you on forgiveness. Just when I think I have forgiven I run into the person I supposedly have forgiven and all the same emotions rush in like a flood. Kids are AWESOME!!!
I hope your son never outgrows that.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget. When I do, I make the same mistakes over and over again and that is not helpful. Instead I try to keep the past in the past and work on living in the present. While not prefect, it does seem to work for me.
xo
Thanks for this. It is such a tension, to forgive and lose less energy to the transgressor or to remember and hope to punish somehow. Funny how when I type it the answer seems so obvious, yet in life it seems much more subtle.
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