When I was doing SAT tutorials some years (like 3 years now), we had to write essays and the topics were really required critical thinking. They were correct (making-senses) topics. One that really caught my attention went somehow like this “The flaws we so despise in others are probably our greatest flaws” seemingly controversial in nature, but looking critically and not too far I realised that it is quite true. The reasons why some friends fight, why husbands and wives fight, sons and fathers, brothers, sisters. I am saying this from experience both personal and third-person scenarios. This lead to the title of this post, FORGIVENESS… hmmmn. You know, the bible says something about this “… forgive us our trespasses AS we forgive those who trespass against us..” Well this is easy to say, in reality (when you are in the hot seat), when you are the offended, it isn’t easy. Now, what I am actually driving at is this:
1. Having it in mind that sometimes the things we do not want to forgive, we either have in one way or the other being forgiven ourselves at one time or the other (before the reference event) or might need forgiveness for such in the future (you probably will say never, I can never do what she/he did), does this or can this help in the hastening the process of forgiveness and isn’t it just a not-so-good reason to forgive
2. Forgiveness isn’t easy but, we just must if we ultimately want to be forgiven.