Forgiveness is not
foolishness.
Forgiveness is, at its core,
choosing to see your offender with different eyes. When some Moravian missionaries took the
message of God to the Eskimos, the missionaries struggled to find a word in the
native language for forgiveness. They
finally landed on this cumbersome twenty-four-letter choice: issumagijoujungnainermik. This formidable assembly of letters is
literally translated “not being able to think of it anymore.”
To forgive is to move on,
not to think about the offense anymore.
You don’t excuse him, endorse her, or embrace them. You just route thoughts about them through
heaven.
-- Max Lucado in Facing Your Giants
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