"Bear with each other and forgive
whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord
forgave you." (Colossians 3:13 NIV)
If our past fences us in with resentment
and with desires for revenge, we are old before our time because the past holds
us captive. If I can’t forgive someone who has hurt me in the past, even if the
hurting was mean and intentional, I am letting them control me years later. It
is enough that someone hurt me when I was five or fifteen or fifty. Why let
them continue to hurt me today? Why should I allow their deeds to control me
still, decades later?
-- J. Ellsworth Kalas in “I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow
Old”
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