Tag: forgiveness
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Dark, dangerous hearts
I am struggling to forgive a gross wrong I suffered more than four years ago.
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Forgiveness isn’t reconciliation
After you forgive someone, must you reconcile? I think the answer is, sometimes, no.
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The mechanics of forgiveness
What I’ve learned through painful experience about how to forgive so that I can be at peace.
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Unrightable
This week: essays I’ve written on forgiveness and reconciliation. This one is from 2008.
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Meditations on forgiveness and reconciliation
All week I’ll be sharing favorite posts about forgiveness.
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Forgiveness isn’t reconciliation
It makes me crazy when I hear it said (especially by preachers or others teaching the Christian faith) that when you forgive someone, you must reconcile, returning the relationship to where it was before. It’s not true. In my last post I wrote about why and how to forgive – to suffer the loss and bear…
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The mechanics of forgiveness
$400 bought my resentment and scorn. When I was in college, one of my roommates had a girlfriend who still lived in his hometown. He missed her a lot, and spent a couple hours on the phone with her every night. One day he abruptly quit school and moved back home to be with her.…
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Unrightable
A friend has wanted to talk lately about the hard work of forgiveness, so I’ve been thinking about what I’ve learned about it over the past few years. Not long enough ago I hurt someone pretty badly and was hurt back as badly in return. We had cast down the china teacup of our relationship and…