Like Bryan Adams...

I'm just thinking about forgiveness.

Oy veh. That's the problem with puns about Bryan Adams songs...nobody gets them, because nobody listens to him anymore! I'm sure that's painful to read if you are a fan. Probably "cuts like a knife."

OK, enough. What I really wanted to post was this awesome quote about forgiveness that I came across yesterday. It's from two Jewish writers - Dr. Sidney B. Simon and Suzanne Simon - who put together a collection of writings called Yom Kippur Readings. Maybe for those coming off a broken relationship, or a hard chapter in your life, a bad move, a bad job...whatever. I think most of us can find something in our history that relates to this quote - even though I often struggle with forgiveness. But I suspect most people do.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend.

Many of us grew up believing that forgiveness was an act to be performed or an attitude to possess, and the reason that we could not forgive was that we were not trying hard enough. But what really keeps us from forgiving the people who hurt us is that we have not yet healed the wounds they inflicted.

Forgiveness is the gift at the end of the healing process. We find it waiting for us when we reach a point where we stop expecting "them" to pay for what they did, or make it up to us in some way.

Forgiveness is moving on. It is recognizing that we have better things to do with our life and then doing them.