Wise Words on Wednesday: The Budding of forgiveness
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
I’ve found that to be true, at least in certain situations. If you can’t forgive a person right away, all you can do is pray to one day have the ability to do so…then, at some point — however far down the line that may be — you wake up in the morning to find that you have forgiven them, without even realizing it consciously. It’s a grace, I think.
Yeah, the truth behind the (rarely comforting) platitude “Time heals all wounds…”