5 thoughts on “Chevruta discussions – Forgiveness”
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About 3 years ago, I wrote this poem (a Google Doc) on the theme of forgiveness. Most directly, it considers whom we forgive:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FwkHb3zt2Toamhgw1EPCPUMy3FqMRJ5ro_cY8RdSdcs/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you Bill. Beautiful.
Fred Luskin: “Forgiving someone means understanding that you did not get what you wanted.”
Henri J.M. Nouwen: “Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly.”
Reinhold Niebuhr poem:
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.”