Forgiveness Is Tough

Forgiveness is tricky. I debated about whether to read the last line of the poem for that reason because forgiveness, you have to be ready to forgive and it's a process and forgiveness is the end point. The best we can do is think of forgiveness as for freeing your own heart from these states of grudge and resentment and anger and ill will. We're not going to love our enemy, but we don't have to be obsessed for our lifetime with the harm that was done to us. Forgiveness is the ultimate spiritual pull up bar. It feels better to forgive than to be enraged and carrying around grudges and resentments.