Forgiveness Is The Key That Can Unshackle

God Is The Original, Master Forgiver. Each Time We Grope Our Reluctant Way Through The Minor Miracle Of Forgiving, We Are Imitating His Style. I Am Not At All Sure That Any Of Us Would Have Had Imagination Enough To See The Possibilities In This Way To Heal The Wrongs Of This Life Had He Not Done It First.

If You Cannot Free People From Their Wrongs And See Them As The Needy People They Are, You Enslave Yourself To Your Own Painful Past And By Fastening Yourself To The Past, You Let Your Hate Become Your Future.

The Longer We Hate, The Harder It Is To Heal Us.

Forgiveness Is The Key That Can Unshackle Us From A Past That Will Not Rest In The Grave Of Things Over And Done With. As Long As Our Minds Are Captive To The Memory Of Having Been Wronged, They Are Not Free To Wish For Reconciliation With The One Who Wronged Us.

Happy People Are Not Their Own Enemies, Do Not Carry On An Endless War With Their Souls. We May Be Fiercely At Odds With The Wrongs Of The World Around Us. But Inside Ourselves, Near The Core, If We Are Happy, We Are At Peace.