The process of rigorous forgiveness begins with a gesture by the one who has been wronged. Martin Luther King, Jr., argued that forgiveness isn’t an act; it’s an attitude. We are all sinners. So the person with a forgiving attitude expects sin, empathizes with sin, and is slow to think him- or herself superior to the one who has done the sinning. The forgiving person is strong enough to display anger and resentment toward the person who has wronged her, but she is also strong enough to put away that anger and resentment. She is strong enough to make the first move, even before the offender has
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