My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Conditions of Forgiveness
If forgiveness is a good idea, then the king should have forgiven his servant no matter how the servant treated his colleague. Making it conditional diminishes the action. Perhaps, in the same vein Jesus might have prayed that they be forgiven no matter what they had done, rather than making their ignorance the determinant.
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forgiveness,
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