Tuesday, August 22, 2006
I'm not easily forgiving toward myself or others.
It's difficult to forgive myself for things I know others
have not forgiven. & it's difficult to forgive others when they
don't understand what they're being forgiven. Sometimes,
it's that very lack of understanding that needs forgiveness.
Over the years I've come to cope with this not by
developing a thick skin but by listening less. Neither one
is a good way.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
It's difficult to forgive myself for things I know others
have not forgiven. & it's difficult to forgive others when they
don't understand what they're being forgiven. Sometimes,
it's that very lack of understanding that needs forgiveness.
Over the years I've come to cope with this not by
developing a thick skin but by listening less. Neither one
is a good way.
