Forgive

Forgiveness.


Let the weight of that word sit with you for a minute.


Forgiveness.


What kind of feelings does the word evoke?


Forgiveness.


I've been meditating on this word a lot lately.  It's at the center of so many things in my life.  For some people it rolls off the tongue easily,  for others its a bitter lump that hangs out in their throat and makes it hard to swallow.  It's easy to forgive simple things, like your kids when they do something.  Not so much when it's your children that have been hurt.  But regardless of how hard, or how bitter, or how angry I feel.  I know it's important.  And I know that it is the best gift I can give myself.