Foregiveness
Forgiveness is one of the things that we are asked to do as part of our Christian life. It is also one of the hardest things, I feel, for us to do as human beings. We remember things long after they have ceased to be really relevant to the rest of the world and can harbour grudges and sleights for years.
Today’s action is to ‘forgive someone who has been unkind to you’. I have been thinking about this action today and how I would interact with it. Today sees me away from home at a conference in Telford, so I am not in my normal environment of meeting people I know. Not that it means that the people I know are normally unkind to me, it is just that the people you don’t know will not normally go out of their way to offend you in any way.
So this set me thinking about things in my past that I have maybe forgotten, but not really forgiven. It can sometimes be a real challenge to all of us to try to live that life of selfless forgiveness that we know we should. Which brings me to D – he was someone I used to work with, who I felt had once, many years ago, sold me up the river good and proper! Although he apologised soon afterwards and said that he felt there was little else he could do, I was quite resentful at the time. This had also rankled with me for some time afterwards, and I think this has been sitting heavy on my heart for all these years.
So, for what I feel he did to me at the time, I really do forgive him. To me, it will always be a sadness what he did, so not forgotten, but forgiven. Life moves on and so should we………
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