{"id":71951,"date":"2020-01-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=71951"},"modified":"2019-12-29T13:21:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T20:21:21","slug":"finally-forgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/01\/finally-forgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Finally Forgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"459\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lewis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lewis.jpg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lewis-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lewis-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Lewis-600x320.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;\u2026Do you know, only a few weeks ago I realised suddenly that I at last had forgiven the cruel schoolmaster who so darkened my childhood. <br><br>I\u2019d been trying to do it for years: and like you, each time I thought I\u2019d done it, I found, after a week or so it all had to be attempted over again. <br><br>But this time I feel sure it is the real thing. And (like learning to swim or to ride a bicycle) the moment it does happen it seems so easy and you wonder why on earth you didn\u2019t do it years ago. <br><br>So the parable of the unjust judge comes true, and what has been vainly asked for years can suddenly be granted. I also get a quite new feeling about \u2018If you forgive you will be forgiven.\u2019 I don\u2019t believe it is, as it sounds, a bargain. The forgiving and the being forgiven are really the very same thing. But one is safe as long as one keeps on trying&#8221;<\/p><cite>C.S. Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne (1963) <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026Do you know, only a few weeks ago I realised suddenly that I at last had forgiven the cruel schoolmaster who so darkened my childhood. I\u2019d been trying to do it for years: and like you, each time I thought I\u2019d done it, I found, after a week or so it all had to be attempted over again. But this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[1914,389],"class_list":["post-71951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-forgiveness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74535,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71951\/revisions\/74535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}