Forgiveness

To err is human, to forgive divine.

~ Alexander Pope

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I am very good at forgiving small unkindnesses.  I understand how they happen.  I do small unkind things every day.  

I stink at forgiving big unkindnesses.  I know I would be better off if I knew how to forgive them.  I'm even very interested in exploring how to forgive them.  I just don't know how.  When it comes to those sorts of things, this quote works better for me than the one above:

There is something to pardon in everything.  

There is also something to condemn.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

That should not be confused with, "There is something of Dolly Parton in everything."  While that might be true, that is not what I'm focusing on here.