Forgiveness has the power to overcome what divides us. It can melt the armor of fear and resentment around our hearts that keeps us separate from others, from ourselves, and from life itself. I once asked a young woman with cancer who had been abandoned by her family and had to live on the streets if she thought forgiveness took courage. “Yes,” she said, “but for me it was a way to find out if I was capable of loving again.” Forgiveness releases our hearts from the rubble of anger and other negative feelings, and clears the way to love.
