Forgive: The Small and the Big Stuff!

“Forgiving small things is easy—like when the neighbor didn’t pick up after their dog and I stepped in it. Or like the time a barber used the wrong number clipper on me and made me look like a Marine. I can release flyspeck hurts with one swing of the forgiveness swatter. But it’s the elephant-size offenses that require a more insistent and painstaking approach. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.’”

[An excerpt from my book: THE OTHER END OF THE DARK: A Memoir About Divorce, Cancer, and Things God Does Anyway]