Card after card, I had a marked moment of forgiveness, emptying my heart of all the heavy facts of what happened. It’s not that all these were erased from my memory—we’ll get to that in just a minute. But doing this one fact at a time freed me from carrying all those unspoken facts, which had become tangled up into one huge mess that felt way too big to forgive. One by one, I acknowledged all the pieces and parts of what felt like such an overwhelming nightmare. And, as I verbalized what happened, I finally felt like I had a voice in the midst of the chaos.
